You can sandbox native apps as well, without buying into all the complexity and unplanned obsolescence (have you tried browsing on an old 32bit computer?) that

You can sandbox native apps as well, without buying into all the complexity and unplanned obsolescence (have you tried browsing on an old 32bit computer?) that web browsers come with. Also, sandboxing web apps is incredibly limited; how do you restrict a web app from accessing the network? Web apps also provide no degree of trust. You can't know what will be loaded in advance. Native software can allow you to inspect source code and modify it beforehand without resorting to maintaining a web server for self-hosting. Hell, Debian's working on reproducible builds and F-Droid has had it for years, while the web just figured out script verification with SHAs (entirely controlled by the vendor, which misses half the point). > Gyroscope, accelerometer and compass APIs allow me to install fewer crappy small ad-packed native apps that I'll use one in a blue moon. Even better: let's try to build a world where people don't have to run proprietary malware, on the web or otherwise. > A built-in PDF viewer allows it to update frequently along with the browser and if properly sandboxes is probably more secure than installing some random PDF viewer setup.exe from somewhere. Better idea: have a PDF reader that just opens documents without any scripts or internet connection. muPDF is a good option. Also, don't use random apps (native or web); distro packages are a good start for some trust beyond the vendor. We've reached the point at which running two web apps cuts down battery life twice as much as me running my desktop, mail client, editor, newsreader, music player, and IRC client combined. The only "native" programs that come close to this level of resource abuse are Java IDEs. Web browsers are so complex that they essentially can't be forked or created anew without hundreds of millions of dollars in annual funding. And with the increasing footprint of web apps, it's no wonder people feel the need to turn their computers into e-waste every N years.