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Comment on Ask HN: Why do such things like smartphone apps even exist if we have web pages?

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Because the mobile web browser experience just sucks. Thin client vs rich client experience. It’s a downgrade to the basic common denominator experience.

And what amazing games are you playing on a web browser? The same could be said about desktop apps… Why even have desktop apps?

What amazing games are you playing on a smart phone? Most should be very doable as normal web site game, of which many complicated exist?

And normal desktop programs are something quite different, because you often work with big software packages, and large local data items, which you additionally would not want to send around the world, not even being able to do your work, when something remote fails. Which would be no problem for most of your smartphone apps, I'd think.

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