Given how toxic many mobile apps are and how a pretty significant amount of time they’re still just a web app under the hood, I think native apps have already lost the war.
So like yourself, I very rarely install apps these days.
So like yourself, I very rarely install apps these days.
The App Store (iOS) may not be perfect but there are truly quality apps and the developers have a real incentive to maintain these, seeing that the willingness to pay for apps is high in the Apple ecosystem.
This obviously doesn’t apply to games. But even there, there’s a surprising amount you can do with HTML5 et al on iOS if you wanted.
When you also factor in Electron on the desktop, a surprise number of “native” applications these days are really just websites in a container.
Because I'm personally under the impression that this is what most people use their phone for (maybe play a game or two as well). tough this might also depend on the countries where I lived (and when).
And some people also take pictures of course
I think a vast majority still uses apps outside of messaging and music though, because social media exists. Instagram, Facebook, Twitter/X, TikTok, SnapChat are all apps and it's absolutely the case that they are better off being true native apps, which they are.
This is a ridiculous thing to say. there are plenty of wonderful native apps on Android
They added enough friction through ads, cookie banners, forced login to view content and more ads that I don’t care to use them anymore.
I’m using a 3rd party app to view HN and I probably visit 3-4 times a day.