> I'm not even sure why are we, as developers, allowing this to happen — there's usually not any good reason to develop mobile applications at all anymore. It's time to move back to open (web) standards and take control back into our own hands!
In general yes, but if I look at the apps on my phone I have
A mail client, K9, old UI. This clearly can't be replaced by a web app because I'm using it to look at my mail in a few POP3 servers and then I'll download those messages on my laptop (Thunderbird)
OSMAnd, offline maps and trop recording. Can't be web based.
Password manager, with a local dB synced with Syncthing.
Syncthing.
Epub reader, from files stored on my phone.
Photo gallery, for files on my phone. I backup to my laptop with Syncthing.
Banking apps, that I must use for 2FA in the web sites of those banks.
A network scanner, useful to debug networking issues.
Etc.
Of all the apps that are currently installed on my phone the ones that could be web apps are:
Go4Go, to view game records of pro games.
Elementary.
Chwazi.
In general yes, but if I look at the apps on my phone I have
A mail client, K9, old UI. This clearly can't be replaced by a web app because I'm using it to look at my mail in a few POP3 servers and then I'll download those messages on my laptop (Thunderbird)
OSMAnd, offline maps and trop recording. Can't be web based.
Password manager, with a local dB synced with Syncthing.
Syncthing.
Epub reader, from files stored on my phone.
Photo gallery, for files on my phone. I backup to my laptop with Syncthing.
Banking apps, that I must use for 2FA in the web sites of those banks.
A network scanner, useful to debug networking issues.
Etc.
Of all the apps that are currently installed on my phone the ones that could be web apps are:
Go4Go, to view game records of pro games.
Elementary.
Chwazi.