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That’s mostly a marketing trick to get the company’s brand on your phone home screen. It’s also a side effect of the demands of the attention economy fighting
by the_other 6y ago
That’s mostly a marketing trick to get the company’s brand on your phone home screen.
It’s also a side effect of the demands of the attention economy fighting against Apple’s refusal to allow web notifications on iOS.
- GoblinSlayer 6y agoI imagine apps are better at being apps than a web browser, and due to their complexity webapps are also tightly coupled to a specific brand and version of browser, so you have less compatibility problems by bundling your preferred vm with your application.
- the_other 6y agoI'd argue today that "apps" do pretty well whether they're in a browser or native. Native Slack is pretty good. Web Google Docs/Sheets is pretty good. VSCode is almost the same regardless of where you run it. But equally, Sketch and Ableton Live are also pretty good. Native Teams and Zoom are travesties of usability and stability. Basically, I don't see consistent patterns of good or bad between web and native apps to justify your comment that "apps are better at being apps than a web browser". Most GUI apps, native or otherwise, get associated with a brand. Especially the good ones. I'd buy Ableton swag, I love the brand that much. The VAST bulk of web apps are NOT browser version specific. It's largely only bespoke, internal corporate apps that are tied to one version of a browser.
- GoblinSlayer 6y agoRelevant post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25915313 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25915313