{"id":770,"date":"2016-04-20T21:30:25","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T01:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/?p=770"},"modified":"2016-04-20T21:30:25","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T01:30:25","slug":"reply-to-walt-mossberg-native-apps-vs-web-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/2016\/04\/reply-to-walt-mossberg-native-apps-vs-web-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Reply to Walt Mossberg &#8211; Native apps vs web apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently listened to an episode of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/4\/7\/11384640\/ctrl-walt-delete-podcast-mobile-apps-vivaldi-browser\" target=\"_blank\">Ctrl-Walt-Delete podcast<\/a>, in which Walt Mossberg and Nilay Patel talked about web browsers vs native mobile apps. There was something Walt said that I have to comment on, because I disagree with it, and a tweet just isn&#8217;t enough. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>When explaining why most people use native mobile apps, he argued that the main reason is because an app (when done right) offers a more focused experience, He cited Google Maps as an example.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t think it\u2019s that complex. I think it has more to do with how fast you can get there. If I want to use Google Maps, it\u2019s quicker and more convenient to tap on the Google Maps icon than it is to tap on the browser, then pull up a list of bookmarks, and tap on the Google Maps bookmark. That has nothing to do with the experience of <em>using<\/em> the app.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not saying that&#8217;s the only reason people use native mobile apps. I think most other differences have a minor effect on the user&#8217;s decision, and how fast and convenient it is to get to the app is probably the biggest factor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently listened to an episode of the Ctrl-Walt-Delete podcast, in which Walt Mossberg and Nilay Patel talked about web browsers vs native mobile apps. There was something Walt said that I have to comment on, because I disagree with&hellip;  <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/2016\/04\/reply-to-walt-mossberg-native-apps-vs-web-apps\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2,3,7,8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firefox","category-mozilla","category-mozilla-suite","category-netscape","category-personal","category-seamonkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":772,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions\/772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}