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Freedom? Both on the consumer side and the company side? Also web indexing? Easier sharing? privacy concerns?

• stephenr 7y ago
  Freedom from what? How does web indexing help the end user? Sharing what? How do you imagine that a cached webpage is more private than a locally running compiled app?
  • julienreszka 7y ago
    Not freedom from but freedom to : set your own terms not the terms of the play store or the iPhone store. Indexing helps the user find the app. Sharing a specific page of the app to a friend's thanks to the URL. You can't install an app without accepting all permission, contact info, sms, and so on. Facebook is much more privacy agressive on native than on the web.
    • stephenr 7y ago
      > You can't install an app without accepting all permission, contact info, sms, and so on. Sounds like someone’s view is skewed by how googles store works. I don’t use Facebook at all but on iOS an app can request permission for eg your contacts or photos or whatever - but you can just deny it. This happens at runtime not install time. So if you install say Skype, it’ll ask for camera and microphone and contacts. But you can deny all of those and just text chat with contacts in your Skype contact list perfectly fine. You talk aboht “indexing” as if native apps aren’t searchable both via the web previews and via the native App Store search.