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>>foxfir+(OP)
Don’t agree, but to each their own. The native app experience for every app noted in the article is better and smoother than the mobile web version, in my opinion. Lots of people hate Electron apps, which suggests to me that my preference for native apps isn’t unique.

Web apps can ask for your location or microphone the same way native apps can. Just reject it, there’s nothing that says you have to accept on either platform, so to say that’s a negative for native apps is odd.

The biggest downside of native apps is you can’t customize them with extensions or user styles like you can with websites.

>>markba+P3
Tbh, the web won the application platform mostly because it's a standard. Everybody knows html, css and a little JS.

On the other hand, for mobile apps, there is still a device-specific mentality.

Imagine web apps being built with a different flavor for all the major browsers...

I hope that the same level of standardization comes to mobile apps too with the option to use more device-specific features on top of the generic UI.