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I pretty ignorant when it comes to mobile apps, so please excuse me for asking, why is developing another interface for web-site X such a common phenomena? It s
by mlLK 17y ago
I pretty ignorant when it comes to mobile apps, so please excuse me for asking, why is developing another interface for web-site X such a common phenomena? It seems redundant and unnecessary to create this extra interface and call it an application when a browser would do just fine.
- roryokane 17y agoI don't have a smartphone, so this is a guess. I think that people on mobile devices might find some aspects of the normal interface of a site hard to use on their device, such as accidentally pressing upvote when you meant downvote because they are so close. If there is a mobile version of the site on the web, this can be solved, but usually, the makers of the site don't want to bother making another version. Therefore, it's up to the users of the site to write an app that essentially translates the normal site into the app writer's idea of a mobile version. I suppose this could also be implemented as a website that acts as a proxy for the original site and changes the page before serving it, instead of an app.