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• squarefoot 5y ago
  Branding and taking control of your terminal to get more data about you. With a browser you click on the same icon then reach the desired page, and if the browser employs some form of ad blocking or malware filtering, a webpage can't do much to scan your device for interesting personal data. An app is quite different for being an executable you installed on your device after it requested access to everything, so they manage to get both their icon on your start screen and also run their code on your phone, which is of course a huge security and privacy hole.
• dreen 5y ago
  Probably the target demographics dont really use non-mobile computers
• thinkingemote 5y ago
  Websites can and do have adblocks and tracking protection.
• jonas21 5y ago
  1. Push notifications. Unless you were constantly checking the website, how would you know whether someone is running a poll? If it's something like "what sort of food should I eat?" I doubt the poll is open for very long. 2. Payments. Being integrated into the in-app purchase system is a much faster and smoother experience than asking for a credit card number. And some people are not going to want to enter their credit card number into a random website to vote in a poll.