"If your app can be browser based and still functional, it should be. Of course there are drawbacks but the economics are in the browser's favor" This right he

"If your app can be browser based and still functional, it should be. Of course there are drawbacks but the economics are in the browser's favor" This right here is the reason there are many browser-based apps - it's really convenient for the company, damn the users. The company can do whatever they want, whenever they want and have full access to both telemetry and user data.