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philippta | 3 months ago

Your reasoning seems counter intuitive as back in 2012 Facebook rewrote their HTML5 based app to native iOS code, optimized for performance, and knowingly took the feature parity hit.

https://engineering.fb.com/2014/10/31/ios/making-news-feed-n...

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eptcyka|3 months ago

Mobile is where the users are. Desktop users are vanishing before our eyes as a market segment.

psychoslave|3 months ago

For some application certainly. Instant messaging of course has many strong point in term of what is to be dealt with. Short messages, photos, quick visios.

But to edit large document, visualize any large corpus with side by side comparison, unless we plug our mobile on a large screen, a keyboard and some arrow pointer handler, there is no real sane equivalent to work with on mobile.

zamadatix|3 months ago

A 2012 iPhone and a 2025 Windows PC shouldn't be assumed to have the same tradeoff set just because "web vs native" is found in each description.

usrnm|3 months ago

It's a tradeoff, different companies are allowed to chose differently or even to change their mind after some time.