Why would I prefer to type a URL? I can just as easily get an URL for the app in ap store and have it right there.
Having app stored on my device is an advantage, unless you like your web apps download in full even on crappy mobile connection. And you really want the content of your app indexed by external search engine?
I like being able to control the permissions my app has. Or does your web app not ask for the permission to use your location, camera, microphone?
I don't need to bookmark where I were in the app: I open it and I am there at once.
You don't want to type URLs, especially on mobile, but the fact that all the items on the home page of HN are links to web pages and not to screens inside apps should hint to a definitive advantage of the web over apps. And to why having a web site is mandatory and having an app is optional.
If the web and apps where in the same competition I'd say the Web can't lose, but I don't believe they compete. They serve different purposes with some overlaps (think Google Docs, the web site and the apps).
You can just click on URLs if I type them. Maybe if you go to your local library, someone can give you a demonstration of how the internet works.
> I can just as easily get an URL for the app in ap store and have it right there.
You're ignoring the deep-linking I'm talking about. Not just the app (like cnn.com), but to actual CONTENT on it, like some specific story.
> Having app stored on my device is an advantage, unless you like your web apps download in full even on crappy mobile connection.
Web Apps can store most of their content in your browser, now. So additional views are not downloading the full app.
> And you really want the content of your app indexed by external search engine?
Yeah, I really want content I produced to be indexed by search engines, so users can actually find it. Not 100% of the time, sure, but I'm in control of that. Explain to me how I can possibly get a search engine to index my content if it IS in an app?
> I don't need to bookmark where I were in the app: I open it and I am there at once.
If you want multiple bookmarks, then no, what you're saying isn't remotely true. If you want to share a bookmark, no, this isn't possible.
Or are you just being argumentative for the sake of being argumentative?
