There is always some degree of tension between “native apps” and “the web” as platforms. If you’re going to write a native app for Android devices, well, I’ll qu…
Native Apps are Doomed
From now on, I won’t be building any more native apps. All my apps going forward will be progressive web apps. Progressive web apps are web…
Why Native Apps Really are Doomed: Native Apps are Doomed pt 2
I recently wrote an article called “Native Apps are Doomed.” I was surprised at how many people were defending native apps. In all honesty…
Why I switched to Android after 7 years of iOS
Monday of last week I was all excited. I had just gotten the green light to start prototyping a new Progressive Web App for a client I've been working with.
Native Apps Should Be Avoided Whenever Possible — No One's Happy
Why native apps have become privacy liabilities, and why the browser is almost always the better choice.
Google takes a new approach to native apps with Instant Apps for Android | TechCrunch
Mobile apps often provide a better user experience than browser-based web apps, but you first have to find them, download them, and then try not to forget
Why did the web take over desktop and not mobile?
TLDR: “make the web do apps” is not a disruptive strategy. It's like surviving The Great Oxidation Event, then saying “make anaerobes do photosynthesis”. Ok, but the blue-green algae got there first, so photosynthesis is no longer asymmetric. It is symmetric competition.
Browsers, not apps, are the future of mobile - The Intercom Blog
Proclamations of an all-native mobile app world ignore the fact that browsers and the web are fast becoming the mobile operating system of the future.
The Website vs. Web App Dichotomy Doesn't Exist | jakelazaroff.com
A one-dimensional spectrum can't sufficiently capture the tradeoffs involved in web development.
There's Life Beyond the App Store
With the imminent release of Foundation for Apps, we've been chatting a lot about apps and how they're built. We've discussed the topic internally with our team, externally with our clients and with tons of our amazing ZURB friends. Much of that discussion revolved around not just how to produce apps, but what an app really is, how they differ from websites and even the future of where they'll go.
Morgan Stanley: No, Apps Aren't Winning. The Mobile Browser Is. | MarTech
Last week, comScore released its Mobile App Report, which we covered. The report contained many interesting findings, but its big takeaway was this:
Native Development
I’ve been on a long-term quest to find a simple, fast, and user-friendly way to develop native applications for a variety of platforms, and this page holds ...
Alex Moore on Open Web Advocacy and Why "Innovation Doesn't Come from the Gatekeepers"
I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux.
Since Android is becoming increasingly more locked down and slopped, I'm jumping ship.
I see talk on here about the public being "platform brained", and a lot of that in my experience comes down to impatience. It's what you see when mainstream apps change layout. People have expectations about how apps are supposed to work, and learning something else is an imposed waste of effort.
jordan silver 🔵
My take on the "explaining atproto" discourse is that all the UX/filesystem/etc metaphors are still very verbose and that you can explain the same idea in a lot less words: It separates data from apps, so any app can use data from any other app. That fits in a tweet, with other sentences around it.
