most popular apps are a list of text, images, video, why would a user need a native app? even recorded video can be handled well for free. the answer ideally should be more substantive than “app icon”.
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Jeremy1026•3h ago
For users, ease of use.
For companies, ease of additional tracking.
It really isn't some _deep_ thing. Users like to be able to quickly access the content they want to consume. Companies want data. Apps fulfill both of these requirements.
linggen•2h ago
For most apps, cross platform like Flutter or RN is the best choice. For apps highly bind on the hardware, or need better performance, usually native is better. But for vibe coding or harness coding today, if workload is not the problem, native is usually a better choice, it allows you do different thing on different platform.
farseer•2h ago
Native apps are not needed unless you want want performance and need to extract all the juice your hardware offers. Only AAA video games come to mind.
deudomperidone•2h ago
Performance.
deudomperidone•2h ago
sometimes it comes with the tradeoff for looks, but with libs like qt, you can make something ugly & fast, or attractive & fast
most apps nowadays are some like electron react vite vue whatever slop
Jeremy1026•3h ago
For companies, ease of additional tracking.
It really isn't some _deep_ thing. Users like to be able to quickly access the content they want to consume. Companies want data. Apps fulfill both of these requirements.