This is why most people still prefer to use the website variants of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, etc, instead of the native app variants. Oh wait, they don't...
Stefan Tilkov @stilkov
1 Jul 2019
Periodic reminder that building a native mobile app in addition to (let alone instead of) a responsive web app is a dumb idea 90% of the time. Of the remaining 10%, 90% are best served by a hybrid app that wraps the web views.
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Sure, most people build apps for companies that have a few hundred million users who care about an app
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I mentioned these apps because they are well known, not because they have millions of users. There a good reasons, functional, UX-wise and technical, to choose to build a native app over a responsive website. As often, the answer is: it depends.
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Replying to @Rene_Wiersma
Of course it depends, completely agree. That’s why I wasn’t arguing with 100% numbers :)

Jul 1, 2019 · 9:46 AM UTC

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Replying to @stilkov @Rene_Wiersma
I’m just tired of people believing their app is going to be as important to someone as Facebook’s is
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Oh, I wholeheartedly agree with that! ;)
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