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Currently I find web apps have better experience on iOS than Android: you can add them on the home screen like other apps, they can have icons and splash screen
by micampe 15y ago
Currently I find web apps have better experience on iOS than Android: you can add them on the home screen like other apps, they can have icons and splash screens, you can make them really look like native apps, as Amazon did here.
It always stroke me as strange that Google didn't do anything like that on Android and honestly it looks like everybody is doing better mobile web apps than Google these days (Amazon, Twitter, even Facebook), which is pretty surprising as well.
One note: iTunes music files haven't had DRM anymore since 2009.
- bane 15y agoYou can add links to webpages directly to a homescreen in Android. They look like a native app except for the address bar. Not as slick as iOS, but it's "OK".
- MatthewPhillips 15y agoAndroid acts as an independent company within Google. I've always got the impression that Andy Rubin doesn't have the same level of web-first mentality that Page and Brin have. I disagree about the mobile web apps though. I think the Google+ (and formerly Google Buzz) web app is just as good as the counterparts. I actually don't like the Twitter mobile app too much. If I click an outside link to a Tweet why in the world aren't you rendering it on the server side?