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My personal viewpoint is that I hate downloading extra apps on my phone, having to mentally manage what permissions I want apps to have, and move into a sandboxed place - it helps decrease the amount of crapware I have on my phone, and having to manage the inevitable rogue app (or few) that destroys performance and battery life, especially if they nag me to update via the App Store (iOS) or Google Play (Android). Phones are not powerful or have good enough battery life for me to want to risk lowering my phone's life while I am out of the house. Unless it is something immensely useful to me and/or performance is that big of an issue, I rather just go to a website. If performance is that bad on a website, I'll open up the link in the browser and just use that my mobile Chrome and desktop Chrome are linked to the same account & open the tab there.

Given this, I never quite understood the gold rush to go appize everything. I may be a web developer now, but if anything, my becoming a web developer has made me use more apps, not less, simply because I make hybrid mobile apps currently.




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