On: Browsers, not apps, are the future of mobile

[maelito]

After installing it, you need to open it (ok, it's easy). Updates frequently require approval of new permissions (android).

[mdadm → maelito]

But the alternative seems to be browser exposing APIs for all those permissions through Javascript and the end-user not really having any control over that. Perhaps I'm just naive about it, since I really don't do Javascript-based development, but this seems to be a worse idea than apps.