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I think the part where he calls out airline apps is spot on though. They don't need any of that tech.

• brookst 2y ago
  As a frequent user of both web and phone airline apps, the phone apps are just nicer. UI idioms that are appropriate for the platform, etc.
  • urbandw311er 2y ago
    Only if they’re designed that way. Many aren’t.
    • wruza 2y ago
      Ready to use (or buy/download) controls in appdev usually pack some ui wisdom into themselves for free, borrowing most of it from the base system. Webdev is constant reinvention of a wheel in all sorts of wrong ways, with “components” on the same level of ui quality. Many apps are just electron apps or vb-like (x,y,w,h) forms slapped together by someone barely familiar with a platform IDE. But the rest is absolutely superior to the “web”.
  • rejhgadellaa 2y ago
    Part of the problem is that the websites need to "share" budget with the teams that build 2 separate native apps (or maybe they use something like React Native, but that still costs money that could've been used for a better mobile website). Also, if a company has a mobile app, a bad mobile website is less of a problem. Take Takeaway.com. Their mobile site is terrible. But they have a pretty good mobile app, so why would they need to pour money into making the site any better? But yes, (mobile) web also just needs to do better.