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> They feel and work nicer mostly than web based.

The "apps" i'm talking about are just the web site packed into a crap and resource hungry web view...

And requires access to my contacts for some reason.

Most of the time it's just incompetence, they import the 1823 js libraries and ask for all the permissions their libraries could use in that corner case that happens once every 1760 years.

> But we live more and more in a browser world and there is less and less choice and I understand I must move with the times.

Wow. Has everything gone full circle again already? I thought we were all still complaining about the death of the web and the app-ocracy.

I prefer apps when they work mostly offline and don't try to send my private data to various third parties. I tend to prefer the browser which allows me to control a little bit more what it does for everything else.