Apps didn’t get better, but web tech regressed!
Yup. Websites basically became even shittier, slower, mobile apps.
And all with banners letting you know how much better the app is.
Oh but they are better…for spying on you
that’s just a bad take tbh, i have to disagree
if either the website or the app for a service is faster than the other, i’ve found that it’s always the app. That’s not to say the app isn’t still much slower than it needs to be, or that the app is always faster, but i have yet to see a website that is faster.
If the website is just a plain HTML site and not a “progressive” web app, it can often be faster.
there’s a massive difference in what can be done with native gui libs and a plain html website though
For a native app yes, but seeing how many apps are built using Electron…
Yeah. The web sucks. :D
Modern Apps are just webviews with specific caching. The only need for an app after around 2012ish is if you need offline access to data. Sensors, etc can all be accessed through browsers and that has been the case for a whole generation (human generation) now.
