Please, you engineer, do your best to make the app usable from a browser.
I dislike apps. Sometimes they make sense. Fine.
Often, they do not, or offer less functionality than PC or web does.
If you need payment, make that easy, same. Cancel easy too. Just because that is nice, and we all could use nice. You like nice, I like nice. Let us be nice.
If you need profanity, whatever, I get it. Let's be adults.
I don't like the gate keepers and do not trust them. I do not expect you to trust me, nor you me.
Clean, open, portable web for both of us as much as can be managed.
I support you, you support me, us.
I can be a user on linux, android, iOS, Windows, BSD, whatever I can get on the web.
Sometimes dependent stuff is needed for the job. I get it. Please try to avoid that stuff, and I will try and run more relevant systems.
:D
I really do avoid apps, really do try and be a good user, really do prefer web and really do run a bunch of OSes.
We both are rare. I do advocacy every chance I get. Maybe you can too.
Stick together in a figurative sense.
My development is small, embedded systems and or specific purpose programs. Enough to get the engineer speaking here.
Hopefully, you are a user enough to do similar things.
I happen to prefer the exactly opposite - I don't want to run the browser (or a browser-wrapper), I want app to be native.
<rant>Websites lack solid, consistent and platform-native look-and-feel. They are always limited, they aren't integrated with the operating system (i.e. task switcher), they are slow on almost anything (because modern web browsers are ugly giant behemoths. I've recently built myself a very beefy machine (16-core CPU, 128GiB RAM) and even now _sometimes_ sites are still choppy. On mobile, lots of sites are performing poorly.</rant>
For me, on mobile, it takes a LOT to bother with an app. Any alternative, even close to reasonable, gets the nod every time.
On a PC, this is less of an issue. Applications will often have great, or superior functionality. No worries.
On mobile? No. The opposite is nearly always true.
Should have been clear.
As for solid platform look and feel... depends there too. If the UX is really optimized for the task, I will take it. Have used so many now. Almost non issue there.
Generally I dislike app stores. This favors PC too.
Perhaps the best features about the web, though, are the share-centric nature of being able to pass around a link, the control we have over the client, and the distribution of apps and info that's least encumbered by gatekeepers.
For example, let's go all the way to the other end of the spectrum where the web as we know it didn't take off and everything was siloed into native apps that you had to download from the App Store before trying something new.
That seems pretty grim to me. I think we're in a sweet spot and lucky to have both.
I dislike apps. Sometimes they make sense. Fine.
Often, they do not, or offer less functionality than PC or web does.
If you need payment, make that easy, same. Cancel easy too. Just because that is nice, and we all could use nice. You like nice, I like nice. Let us be nice.
If you need profanity, whatever, I get it. Let's be adults.
I don't like the gate keepers and do not trust them. I do not expect you to trust me, nor you me.
Clean, open, portable web for both of us as much as can be managed.
I support you, you support me, us.
I can be a user on linux, android, iOS, Windows, BSD, whatever I can get on the web.
Sometimes dependent stuff is needed for the job. I get it. Please try to avoid that stuff, and I will try and run more relevant systems.
:D
I really do avoid apps, really do try and be a good user, really do prefer web and really do run a bunch of OSes.
We both are rare. I do advocacy every chance I get. Maybe you can too.
Stick together in a figurative sense.
My development is small, embedded systems and or specific purpose programs. Enough to get the engineer speaking here.
Hopefully, you are a user enough to do similar things.