Hacker News Reader

Maybe someone could explain - how can mobile web be faster than (semi?) native app?

Because your phone's web browser can include an ad blocker, while the one in the native app has to make all those extra requests?

This is not applicable to majority of mobile web users outside of US (Android devices for example) or non-Safari users (Chrome on iOS).

Android users can get adblockers by sideloading, and Chrome users on iOS are a tiny minority.

The reason why the mobile web version is less sucky on your battery life is because it doesn't get the chance to break out of the browser to monitor your position, play silent audio so that it can stay "active" and push notifications at you, and generally push to the front of the queue.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com