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Mobile internet has underwent massive improvements since then. In the U.S. at least, there are places 5G outperforms wired connections.

Same goes for mobile compute power (which translates to browser performance)



That’s just the tip of the iceberg too. More and more services have adopted a web-first interface. So the benefits of native applications have dwindled when you’re basically just using web technologies regardless.

And then there is the massive abuse of spyware in mobile apps. For that reason alone, I rarely bother with native apps if I can help it.




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