* Website discoverability sucks ass; at any rate you can advertise an app on your website and ge the best of both worlds
* Websites require connectivity
* Web development is unnecessarily tedious and requires coding in multiple half assed languages and targeting different browsers and platforms (and scale)
* Most websites don't make any money at all regardless of which rules you play by, but you're playing by google's unknowable rules at minimum
* Websites lack basic features of apps, such as offering complete control over the user experience (e.g. Not wasting screen real estate on web browser cruft)
* Let's be honest, including games every website could be implemented as an app.
I actually agree with your post in many ways, but all your points can be turned around without even being clever or disingenuous. I think some things (e.g. Magazines and most content apps) should be websites not apps. Other things should be apps. A few things should be both. Websites need to devise ways to work offline (which magazine apps do, but suck anyway).
Let's take a simple example: Ken Rockwell sells interactive camera manual apps for iOS devices. Could this be a web site? Sure, but not much use when you're hiking or caving or doing a shoot on a building site huh? Also much harder to monetize.
* Websites require connectivity
* Web development is unnecessarily tedious and requires coding in multiple half assed languages and targeting different browsers and platforms (and scale)
* Most websites don't make any money at all regardless of which rules you play by, but you're playing by google's unknowable rules at minimum
* Websites lack basic features of apps, such as offering complete control over the user experience (e.g. Not wasting screen real estate on web browser cruft)
* Let's be honest, including games every website could be implemented as an app.
I actually agree with your post in many ways, but all your points can be turned around without even being clever or disingenuous. I think some things (e.g. Magazines and most content apps) should be websites not apps. Other things should be apps. A few things should be both. Websites need to devise ways to work offline (which magazine apps do, but suck anyway).
Let's take a simple example: Ken Rockwell sells interactive camera manual apps for iOS devices. Could this be a web site? Sure, but not much use when you're hiking or caving or doing a shoot on a building site huh? Also much harder to monetize.