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I am guess that the apps referred to are the ones which have existed quite happily as a web page before moving to smart phones where for more likely business ra

by Guthur 12y ago

I am guess that the apps referred to are the ones which have existed quite happily as a web page before moving to smart phones where for more likely business rather that user experience reasons they became apps. The ones I can think of are Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. I am certainly not a proponent of web as a platform for everything but there are certainly some things it is rather good at, and making content discoverable in a consistent manner is one of those. If you hid the content in an app it's rarely exposed.

TheOtherHobbes 12y ago
This debate has been going since the days of AOL and CompuServe. As here, it usually misses the differences between public content, private content, and corporately farmed content. Twitter etc are corporately farmed content, and they all provide web and app access. The access method is just a front end. Personal content in apps isn't usually all that interesting. It's hard to think why anyone would care about my Angry Birds scores, or what level I'm on in Candy Crush. (If I played Candy Crush, which I don't.) If you want to make an app that shares content on the web, it's not difficult. I don't see a problem with the fact that it's extra effort, and if you're going to do it you need to justify that effort in some way.