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Comment by Supermancho

> The web won.

I don't think so. Either way the statements are rife with soft terminology, but I'll use raw traffic as my metric for dominance in the functional space.

https://www.perficient.com/insights/research-hub/mobile-vs-d....

The majority of traffic is mobile and apps still rule that platform due to both a superior experience and better interfaces. The trend is clear and ongoing, so I'm not sure why people think the web is still the king. The reasons websites ask you to install the app is because the phone makes that simple when using a phone browser, not because they are implying it will be a better experience for a desktop user.

As you mentioned, content creation tools are almost exclusively PC and so the individuals who are creators (like anyone on this forum) are unconsciously biased toward PCs. I really hate trying to use my phone for anything, because of this bias. My wife and most of my family (excepting my dad) has the opposite experience.

parent Supermancho 4 years ago

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