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Amusing that a rant like this reached #1 spot. Take worst case scenario, darken colors a bit more and then make a generalized conclusion on "web vs. apps". Why

Amusing that a rant like this reached #1 spot. Take worst case scenario, darken colors a bit more and then make a generalized conclusion on "web vs. apps". Why do you even look at it as web vs. apps? Are we still fighting radio vs. tv vs. movies vs. theater? If your app is nothing more than webview loading the same content, it is stupid. To see each app as a threat to "open web" even more stupid. To pretend that web tech is always superior… well, that just shows you don't know much about either web tech and native frameworks. And you know what? It is not that app developers want to kill web, it's the opposite—some web devs want to kill apps "before it is too late". I have no idea, why. This is sad, really, and even more sad when prominent figures in web world start spreading FUD, sometimes even presenting it as "disspeling myths". How about putting your insecurities aside, take a deep breath, spend some time thinking what the web is and what it is good for, what an app is and what it is good for and act accordingly?

lutusp 14y ago
> Why do you even look at it as web vs. apps? Because the issue under discussion is proprietary applications with sequestered content, versus standards-compliant browsers accessing a public Web. > To see each app as a threat to "open web" even more stupid. Try to fill out your argument. Calling it "stupid" isn't an argument. If an app sequesters content, and if that content would otherwise be publicly available, then the app has nothing but disadvantages compared to a browser -- for the user, not the company that designed the app. > To pretend that web tech is always superior ... Straw Man. Only you have made this argument.
tommorris 14y ago
"To pretend that web tech is always superior" I didn't. I said that the overhead of installing an app is unnecessary for the use case of reading the news. I wouldn't install a custom binary on my laptop to read a news website, why should I do so on my phone?

lutusp 14y ago

> Why do you even look at it as web vs. apps? Because the issue under discussion is proprietary applications with sequestered content, versus standards-compliant browsers accessing a public Web. > To see each app as a threat to "open web" even more stupid. Try to fill out your argument. Calling it "stupid" isn't an argument. If an app sequesters content, and if that content would otherwise be publicly available, then the app has nothing but disadvantages compared to a browser -- for the user, not the company that designed the app. > To pretend that web tech is always superior ... Straw Man. Only you have made this argument.

tommorris 14y ago

"To pretend that web tech is always superior" I didn't. I said that the overhead of installing an app is unnecessary for the use case of reading the news. I wouldn't install a custom binary on my laptop to read a news website, why should I do so on my phone?