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The vast majority of apps are just text, images, and buttons. Maybe a video player if you're getting wild. Not really anything that requires processing speed ex
by qgin 3y ago
The vast majority of apps are just text, images, and buttons. Maybe a video player if you're getting wild. Not really anything that requires processing speed except to just render stuff on a screen and wait for touches. They don't need feats of engineering to run well.
- Eridrus 3y ago"Many apps are fine as PWAs" and "there is no technical reason for an app" are very different statements. Many apps are fine as web apps without any OS support at all.
- qgin 3y agoI should have been more specific. There's no technical reason for binary apps to be the dominant form of apps on phones, given that most apps are pretty simple experiences.
- skydhash 3y agoNo technical reason, but I don't see iOS and Android settling on a standard framework for doing native applications and setting a specification for frameworks (localization, camera capture, audio playbacks, and other apis). The web is great, but only when you treat each page as a documents (interactive). Anytime you break out of this, you find yourself in a whole suit of problems as there is no easy way to fit both experiences in the same application (responsive design is not the solution).
- cudgy 3y agoPerhaps, but there appears to be an obvious convergence of Android toward iOS’s user interface idioms.