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The problem with dedicated apps is that you often have to fight with the OS vendor for basic functionality in your app just to distribute it and these days you don't actually gain much with a dedicated app since modern sandboxing is so aggressive and web apis are relatively complete.

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> you don’t actually gain much

Some of what you gain is pretty important though. For example, well written native apps integrate better with the platform’s accessibility features and they typically consume less power, storage, and memory.

I'd contest the storage point pretty strongly.

Well written web apps can be very accessible too and some companies do actually go out of their way to ensure this.

IMO as an end user - aggressive sandboxing is a feature, not a bug

A browser is a sandbox.

Browsers already do this much better. If you don't trust something that's where it belongs, not as a local app.

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