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This is big but unfortunately I don't see it solving a main problem. Lots of apps in the app store are merely repackaged web browsers. Although this is prohibit
by shadesandcolour 14y ago
This is big but unfortunately I don't see it solving a main problem. Lots of apps in the app store are merely repackaged web browsers. Although this is prohibited (I think) by the app store guidelines they're in there anyways. They don't get javascript enhancements and are slow and laggy for the most part.
But this won't make companies pull those apps from the store. Why? Because they want to be in the app store but they don't have the time or capital to write a native app so they stuck to what they knew. It's a lot easier to tell customers to find them on the app store and you can include a link on your desktop website that will direct people to the right place. I doubt a lot of people even know that you can pin webapps anymore, so you'd have to overcome that barrier.