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Web apps will win eventually, there's only so much chrome and flash you can stuff in a native app and with WebASM/WebGPU becoming more robust the performance di
by CuriouslyC 3y ago
Web apps will win eventually, there's only so much chrome and flash you can stuff in a native app and with WebASM/WebGPU becoming more robust the performance difference between native and webapp for things short of stuff like games is not really meaningful.
- Towaway69 3y agoFrom a technological point of view you're quite right but there are financial interests in creating gatekeeper-based app stores. It becomes worse since the gatekeepers are also those that sell us the mobile devices to access the app stores. It comes down to marketing. As longer there isn't a largish corporation marketing alternatives to native apps, the current situation won't change much - in the short term.