why haven't browsers taken over phones?on desktops 90% of the usage is on web browsers, but on phones people still use apps.
Safari for iOS has various limits that make "web apps" unrealistic. They did it intenitonally because otherwise it would cut into their App Store business model.
>>107677102But on desktop people don't use "web apps", they use websites.
Any website that can be used in a browser, will be, even on a phone. Every big website has its own app, and nobody likes them. The only ones that get used are the bloatware that comes on the phone when you buy it, like the Facebook app. Nobody's going to download the BBC News app.
>>107677080you can harvest more user data with an app, so it's more lucrative to push users into using your app than it is to make the website usable
>>107677080Apps in this context are basically miniature browsers with extra pozz and no uBlock. NPC's love this garbage becausd it looks flashy and you don't need to type.
>>107677080Because the web stack sucks.
>>107677080Becauses the web browsing experience on even flagship phones still suck compared to desktops
>>107677080Websites like normiebook, Amazon, and twitter are optimized for their respective apps, though they still work in web browsers.>>107677532NPCs don't know about ublock, so they won't be using it even in the browsers that support the extension, dumbass. You have no argument.The "lack of need to type" is not exclusive to mobile apps, you can respond with emoticons in Windows/Linux, too. Most folks do prefer to type, dear shut-in.
>>107677080You faggots apparently don't know that doing a mobile app is several times faster and more reliable than a web app. From a developer perspective web development is stinky dog shit that has to be done anyway but it sucks. From a user perspective a web app does dynamically load, and you can hack if you're good, but it's not as convenient to open, and usually is shittier.
>>107677080Google and Apple tax 20% on any money an app makes. They can't do this with a website. So of course they want people to use apps. That is why they killed flash, and why they sabotaged html5.
>>107677920It has nothing to do with that zigger. When html5 was first released smart phones were a novelty and couldn't do any sort of decent web let alone html5. Meanwhile native apps are still many times superior from a developer perspective, let alone at the time. The tax came later and so did all the ads and micro transactions. That was not a thing at first.
