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The reason native apps are used isn't because they are in any way superior than web apps.

The are, but that's not the reason for the majority of the apps, probably under 10% need this superiority.

The reason is marketing and prestige via the app stores and that they are easier to create walled gardens for customers.

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for things I use all the time and don't want to fuss with the disaster that is mobile browser tabs, native apps are vastly superior. I have even bundled up and sideloaded "apps" that are just a web view that is pinned to a specific page for some things just so I have a button I can press that always takes me to the same thing and has no potential for extraneous functionality

From a dev point of view I prefer web apps to native apps, because meddling around with the app-stores, xcode and android studio is a huge burden.

From a user point of view I prefer web apps, because I often just have a browser open and switchting through web apps and they also allow me to share links, videos and images even if the app creator didn't directly implement this.

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