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I'm not sure about that.

1. You can have an icon for web apps

2. That's only true if the web version is crappy and overloaded with ads and trackers. A decently designed

I prefer mobile web for publications, because it's just a link that doesn't impact my phone. The native integration usually only brings annoyances, like unwanted notifications or sucking the battery to fetch articles I may not read.

Apps are for applications. For content, nothing beats the web.



> Apps are for applications. For content, nothing beats the web.

Exactly. I don't want to read your article over your own dedicated app, I already have a perfectly good browser...

...BUT! I also hate applications made as webpages, because no one can perfectly hide the fact it's not native. In webapps, UI pretty much always lags somewhere, breaks down completely under spotty Internet connection, or does something weird because there's no way for webapp to replicate every aspect of expected UI functionality of user's phone.


Not to mention that the app is usually behind the web feature wise.




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