Mobile browser traffic is 2X bigger than app traffic, and growing faster
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I personally abhore the lack of control on my Note 4 and iPhone 5c and that's what's gonna drive many users away -- not now, but in 5-10 years you can count on it. The market always wins. Get control off of the users hands and you shouldn't be surprised by the results. (Sorry for off-topic in this paragraph).
Bad article with skewed stats is bad. No way around it.