billbennett,
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One thing I would love all marketing people to understand: My phone does not need any more apps... especially when what you app does could be handled by a web site.

SirLich,
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@billbennett I feel the opposite about desktop applications. I dislike the migration from os level apps to websites. They always screw up shortcuts and right-click, and since it's not "installed", moving configuration files from one machine to another is either hard or impossible.

Recently I was looking into Graphite.rs, a graph based SVG editor, but even though it's rust WASM, they don't make any cross platform builds. Just the site.

peterbutler,
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@billbennett For location, contacts, other permissions etc? Boo on apps

DHarvey,
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@billbennett I find annoying as some companies stuff, have just taken their website and wrapped it up in an app. My experience with that is very broken with lots of issues when it comes to wanting to share the article. If I wanted to use the website I’d go into Safari on my iPhone, and the share button is in the same place at the bottom of the screen.

billbennett,
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@DHarvey Yes, Accessibility is often awful on apps. That's what got me thinking about this. My eyesight is deteriorating fast. I often need to crank up text size. With Safari I can do this, I can also use the Reader function. Most apps simply don't let you make the text large enough.

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