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> “Many important, profitable, applications aren't used enough to make a native mobile app worthwhile. Most online shops, banking, festival ticketing, governmen
by valuearb 7y ago
> “Many important, profitable, applications aren't used enough to make a native mobile app worthwhile. Most online shops, banking, festival ticketing, government forms, etc. Therefore you will not have to support both server-side rendering and an API for your native apps”
A well done native app is always, faster, more robust and more enjoyable to use than a web UI. Even if your app is used relatively rarely, offering a significantly better user experience means it will be used more. And that’s a very important thing.
- Spivak 7y agoBut users won't install it though. Your app can be a smooth magical experience but you have to get over the hump of getting users to go to the store and download it. Unless I'm using your service daily I'm not going to bother with an app and just use the website.
- leephillips 7y agoSame here. In fact, unless can understand why whatever it is can’t be offered through a web page, or I have no choice, I will not install an app. The reason is security. The more closed-source binaries you put on your phone, the larger your attack surface.
- valuearb 7y agoYou may not install apps without a good reason, but people install apps at a high rate. They love apps.
- Turing_Machine 7y agoHmm... I've seen claims that a 10% install rate is phenomenal when it comes to getting users to install your app, with 1-2% more typical. Do you have data that shows otherwise?
- valuearb 7y agoInstall rates ... depend on many factors. It can be difficult to get installs using advertising and other marketing channels. But getting regular visitors to your web to install your app is by far the easiest way to get installs.
- noahtallen 7y agoI think there’s a difference between desktop and mobile. Maybe you’re talking about mobile here?
- W-_-D 7y agoI also had this sentiment, but I feel like VSCode as of late has pretty much proved this wrong. There's no discernable difference in responsiveness to me between it and any other native IDE I've used. And it's a pretty complex example.
- valuearb 7y agoVS Code is really good, even better than Slack. They just demonstrate that JavaScript can build some nice UI when not constrained to a browser.