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1. cjk+(OP)[view] [source] 2025-07-26 22:58:49
The author makes some good points, but native apps can absolutely provide a better experience than web apps in certain scenarios.

Bloated web apps with megabytes worth of JavaScript and CSS, crappy rendering performance, etc. are all too common. Far too many web apps are unusable or broken if you have any content/ad blockers enabled, which are almost a necessity in order to use the modern web.

Conversely, you download a native app once, and update it infrequently. Load times can be instantaneous. Offline support is far more robust.

To completely write off native apps just because some of those apps abuse the trust of users seems silly. Plenty of web apps have piles and piles of invasive ads and trackers as well.

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