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>News organizations have invested significantly in native apps for iOS, Android, WP7 and even, for a time, webOS -- yet nearly three times as many tablet owners
by dmorgan 14y ago
>News organizations have invested significantly in native apps for iOS, Android, WP7 and even, for a time, webOS -- yet nearly three times as many tablet owners and twice as many smartphone users access news primarily through browsers rather than apps, according to a Pew Research Center study released Monday.
Sorry, but the interpretation of this as "mobile browsers trump apps" is BS.
Of course MORE readers "access their news primarily through mobile browsers".
For one, there are THOUSANDS more news sites that are only available through the browser, compared to news sites that have native apps (and have them on both major mobile platforms).
A relevant question would be "what is the breakdown for a news site that has BOTH an app and a website?". The New York Times, for example.
And this is also focused on "news". What is the breakdown for non-news sites that also have an app. E.g Facebook?