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because most web apps suck
Also they are slower because they need to load more and native apps are faster by their nature. Google made a test to see how search delay impacted users and it turned out even some ms made a difference. And i dont believe shopping apps want that.
Not to mention not everyone has above 6gb ram on their phone to run it smoothly -
@joewilliams007 not everyone has 200mb of storage to spare just for a barcode in a fancy dressing either...
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@joewilliams007 Mobile apps aren't faster by nature. Good mobile apps are faster than good webapps because the performance ceiling is higher. React Native, especially the hodgepodge quasi-webapp usage most common among web-native companies, is hardly ever faster than a webapp with a caching service worker.
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@Lensflare Yep, this right here. Companies are dumb
Why is mobile development still a thing?
Hear me out. All these simple apps, like shopping centre discount, eshops, vinted, other kinds of webapi consumers. Many have a website and a phone app.
Why??? Why the phone app? What's wrong with just embedding your responsive webpage into a webview and call it a day ffs?
I mean, maintenance becomes trivial and there's no split brain. No? What am I missing?
Not talking about apps that rely on android/ios api, for like camera, calls, storage access, sensors etc
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