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Which do You Prefer: Mobile Web Apps or Mobile Websites? (Video)

Posted by Roblimo on from the using-mobile-apps-to-suck-up-bandwidth-and-your-device's-memory dept.

On December 28, 2015, Larry Seltzer wrote an article for Ars Technica provocatively titled (by Ars editors), The App-ocalypse: Can Web standards make mobile apps obsolete? A link to this article was posted on Slashdot, where it provoked a spirited discussion. In this video conversation, we talked to Larry about mobile aps vs. Web standards. Not surprisingly, he had some interesting things to say.

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  1. Huh? by Impy+the+Impiuos+Imp · · Score: 4, Informative

    Hate apps for the most part because they don't let you finger zoom and other things you can do in browsers.

    But from TFA:

    Historically, the problem with using Web applications on mobile devices is that webpages have not been able to do the things we expect of apps: features like pinch and zoom

    Wuuuut? That is the opposite of what is my observation.

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  2. Re:Why is everyone wearing headphones? by Roblimo · · Score: 4, Informative

    Some people watch videos, some don't. We mark all videos as videos to keep you from watching them by mistake, and provide transcripts if you want the information in them but would rather read than view.

    We *could* transmit videos directly to your brain using our subdural trans-pyschic information refabulizer, but we have decided not to do this. For now.