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this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2023
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It’s so easy nowadays to slap some bootstrap and Angular together to build a web frontend. It will work on every device if you don’t do crazy cutting-edge shit. I cannot comprehend why companies dig native apps so much.
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Maybe for some companies. For others the main draw card is push notifications and a big shiny icon for the product on your phone. Also, just FOMO when every other company has an app.
that's also doable on the modern web without an app. service workers go brrr
in fact, the same companies do this all the time on their desktop sites, because no one's gonna install kfc.exe to order some chicken
Apps without a bunch of trackers are few and far inbetween