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ozim a day ago

Publishing mobile apps in Apple store or Google Play is a shit show.

You have to adhere to bizarre requirements, you can be taken down on a whim without possibility to appeal.

You have to pay for a developer account at least to Apple each year $100, Google one time fee $25.

Nothing like that for a web app.

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azuanrb 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Put aside the usual web-dev perspective for a moment. As developers, we build for our users.

The web and native apps serve different purposes. Users do not use a website the same way they use a mobile app, and the trade-offs are different.

I’m getting tired of web developers failing to acknowledge that and treating web technology like a hammer that needs to be applied to every nail they come across.

And especially when people say “the web”, what they often really mean is Chrome and the Chromium ecosystem. A lot of web apps barely get tested properly on Firefox or Safari, which only reinforces Google’s monopoly over the web platform.

Yes, app stores have their problems. That does not make the web the right answer for every product.

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ozim 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Put the money where the mouth is.

If I name the price for actually developing apps no one will pay, there are only nerds nagging about how they are annoyed by web apps.

	▲	azuanrb an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Clients paid us just fine. It really isn't that hard or expensive. It's not rocket science.

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LollipopYakuza a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think more often the comparison is web techs (like React native) VS native apps.

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tokioyoyo a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It’s not really as bad as you make it sound.

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earthnail 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You forgot the 30% revenue share the App Stores take.

	▲	ozim 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		For a lot of companies it is not a factor because they have free app complementary to their services. Main point is that even if you could slop out some code to have a mobile app there is enough of additional burden that makes it not really worth it when you can get away with web version that is good enough and you don’t have to care about all that bs coming with publishing and maintaining a mobile app or to be specific you need to maintain exactly 2 apps.

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mitxela 21 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It is that bad.

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zingar a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I mean, that’s like half an hour of tokens, right? (Half joking laugh/cry etc)