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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. Re:Web Apps by barc0001 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    100% prefer websites over apps because the last bloody thing I need is 200+ apps on my phone or tablet - particularly when many of these apps are poorly written and want access to my photos or location information simply because the app maker was too lazy to exclude those requirements. And I am sure as hell not installing an app to access a site that I might visit once a week or less.