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Nobody wants to install an app?
by derwiki 6mo ago
Nobody wants to install an app?
- ripped_britches 6mo agolol I was going to say this too! I think the inverse is true: nobody wants to install a PWA
- danilocesar 6mo agoI always avoid apps if I can. But yeah, that comment is a bit disconnected to majority of the population.
- albedoa 6mo ago[flagged]
- Invictus0 6mo ago[flagged]
- derwiki 6mo agoI’m not saying that I disagree personally, but for most folks, installing an app does not cross any line in the sand
- sgt 6mo agoGranted, there's a lot of crap apps out there. But properly built apps are a world apart from your typical PWA's or web sites (or even really good ones)
- paulnpace 6mo agoIf it requires Play Store, I will only put it on my work phone.
- retired 6mo agoI have a handful of 3rd party apps on my phone and none on my computer. Prefer to just use browser.
- stingraycharles 6mo agoYeah that’s a weird comment. I don’t want a PWA. I want a normal app. Users want apps.
- threecheese 6mo agoWe’re not normies, so take that with a grain of salt. Here’s mine: apps have access to significantly expanded capabilities which has privacy implications. If I can use the browser for a given app, I do it. Amazon for example.
- ChrisMarshallNY 6mo agoAs a native app writer, this has been my experience. Mentioning it here, though, tends to get pushback from folks that write Web apps. They don’t want to admit that native apps have more capabilities than Web apps; even if that’s a bad thing, because of security risks.
- fc417fc802 6mo agoPersonally I'll only install FOSS apps on my phone and I go out of my way to actively discourage (to varying degrees of success) my relatives from installing arbitrary junk that they surely don't need on their phones.
- opan 6mo agoSame here, if it's on F-Droid I'll install it, otherwise I'm using the mobile site on my browser.
- numpad0 6mo agoPeople say PWAs are good as apps now and feels like an app now, personally as ab armchair nobody I doubt the retention rate actually compare, even if the app was literally just a plain WebView.