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Dan Gillmor Aug 2, 2023

App developers, I am BEGGING you to provide web versions and not force us to do our work on tiny screens and thumb-type everything. This goes triple for apps that are restricted to just one of the two major corporate mobile platforms.

For many if not most, this should be readily possible, given how many apps are websites with app wrappers.

I gladly pay for or donate to software that helps me...

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Dr. Angus Andrea Grieve-Smith

@dangillmor As an app developer, I occasionally ask, "why can't this just be a responsive web app?"

The answer is usually that the app makers want access to some features that's easier to obtain on mobile. Offline data, location, notifications - they used to be much harder to get in a browser, but the browser makers have been adding them at a fairly rapid clip, so there's not much excuse now!