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It's orders of magnitude harder to get users to download a program than it is to just give them a link and have everything right there, no?

• chadcmulligan 7y ago
  Its a trade off though - its orders of magnitude harder to develop a web browser app, and they are slower, and there are limits to what you can do. So yes the link is easier but its a trade off, so just saying you can just send a link glosses over a lot of decisions, you can just send a link to something on an App Store to, and the power difference in the apps is significant and really how hard is it to install something from an App Store
• dahfizz 7y ago
  Sure, if the only metric you care about is "how easy is it to try out my project" then making a website makes sense. That's a very single-dimensional decision making progress. You're nowhere near convincing that all UIs must be made with a website. Even if we restrict our view to UIs made for businesses for the purpose of making a profit, native apps make a lot of sense. Just think of any big tech company; they all have robust apps and consumers largely prefer the apps. You can order door dash or an Uber in a web browser, but people almost always use the app because a good native app is a better experience than a good website app.