Yes. The web's winning feature is "it works everywhere". If your app doesn't work for the wealthiest 50% of users, why go that route? Making a desktop web app work on mobile, just for Android, is a lot of work. It needs to work on both iOS and Android to make it worthwhile.
> they all depend on full desktop browser to work (often due to sheer fact that they are complex apps that don't work well on mobile screens)
Gmail, Office, Docs - they all exist on mobile (as native apps). So it's not the complexity itself that makes it a problem on mobile screens. What does the native Gmail app do that the desktop web app doesn't?
> Android's market share is 68-70% worldwide.
Not in the wealthiest parts of the world, where the money is.
Yes. The web's winning feature is "it works everywhere". If your app doesn't work for the wealthiest 50% of users, why go that route? Making a desktop web app work on mobile, just for Android, is a lot of work. It needs to work on both iOS and Android to make it worthwhile.
> they all depend on full desktop browser to work (often due to sheer fact that they are complex apps that don't work well on mobile screens)
Gmail, Office, Docs - they all exist on mobile (as native apps). So it's not the complexity itself that makes it a problem on mobile screens. What does the native Gmail app do that the desktop web app doesn't?
> Android's market share is 68-70% worldwide.
Not in the wealthiest parts of the world, where the money is.