I don't think I've seen this mentioned here so far, but a big reason why I use (and pay for) native apps is because the subscription management process, at least in the Apple ecosystem, is quite a bit simpler and less user hostile than having to go through an individual site/company for each service.
If I subscribe through the App Store, I can easily cancel my subscription at any time by going to one place and just clicking "Cancel Subscription". Contrast this with some well-known news sites who make you place a phone call and then give you the run around just to cancel a basic subscription.
It would be a nightmare to subscribe to multiple different websites and then have to go through a user-unfriendly process to cancel through each one.
At least for EU people this will be better starting from 2022: Where you can make an online contract, online cancellation must be at least as easy as buying the things, with just a simple click on a button.
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I don't think I've seen this mentioned here so far, but a big reason why I use (and pay for) native apps is because the subscription management process, at least in the Apple ecosystem, is quite a bit simpler and less user hostile than having to go through an individual site/company for each service.
If I subscribe through the App Store, I can easily cancel my subscription at any time by going to one place and just clicking "Cancel Subscription". Contrast this with some well-known news sites who make you place a phone call and then give you the run around just to cancel a basic subscription.
It would be a nightmare to subscribe to multiple different websites and then have to go through a user-unfriendly process to cancel through each one.
At least for EU people this will be better starting from 2022: Where you can make an online contract, online cancellation must be at least as easy as buying the things, with just a simple click on a button.