Probably a lot of this is Android users, who can't trust apps.
Mobile browser traffic is 2X bigger than app traffic, and growing faster
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Re: Mobile browser traffic is 2X bigger than app traffic, and growing faster
#92What the report is based on: a median value selected from the traffic to 42 of the top US websites (it ignores those which don't have both and app and a website) from data provided by Comscore. The term "traffic" is never defined. Web requests? Quantity of data transferred? Both of those would have significantly shapes depending on whether the client was a browser or an app. It's also interesting to note that the top…
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Re: Mobile browser traffic is 2X bigger than app traffic, and growing faster
#93These reports never clarify how they count browser use embedded in apps, notably Facebook and Twitter.
Re: Mobile browser traffic is 2X bigger than app traffic, and growing faster
#94I believe that mobile browser will beat apps, like it did on desktop. Mobile browsers were unusable, sites were not mobile-friendly, devices were slow with tiny screens. Now those factors change and browsing websites on modern smartphone is much more usable. And it's likely that we will see shift from mobile apps to mobile websites in the near future.
>like it did on desktop It's pretty great that this happened. I'm so sick of using these pesky desktop applications. Just remind me, which web apps can I use for the following? -Audio production -3D animation -Video editing -CAD design -Writing/debugging software
For audio production, iMaschine is a fantastic app and the main reason I stay with iOS. In fact, the $5 app was so good that I ended up buying the $200 Maschine hardware controller + desktop software for the seamless integration: create a track in iMaschine and it will export a file that you can open up on the desktop to apply advanced effects, additional voices, etc.
Re: Mobile browser traffic is 2X bigger than app traffic, and growing faster
#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
For anything that's processor intensive it's clear that apps will win, but flipping that think about the classic office bundle and how google moved that to the browser: - Email - Word Processing - Spreadsheets - Slideshows
Google didn't move email to the browser. Hotmail and Yahoo did. And Google Apps hasn't displaced Office by and measure. Companies are still depending on and using standard SOE stacks which includes Office.
Maybe not at enterprise, but in my experience google apps have displaced office for smaller orgs and personal use. I haven't used Word or Excel in like 6 years now.
Re: Mobile browser traffic is 2X bigger than app traffic, and growing faster
#96Isn't it because the browser loads user interface and code all the time (sure, there's caching, but still), while apps only load data?
Apps never download 100MB updates every few weeks either, right?
Re: Mobile browser traffic is 2X bigger than app traffic, and growing faster
#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
On Firefox OS and to a large extent on the Ubuntu phone, most apps are web based apps.
Both of which have really tiny userbases and aren't desktop.
The point was that plen of apps already run like that. Doesn't really require a broswer upgrade. The Ubuntu phone is not especially highly specced.
Re: Mobile browser traffic is 2X bigger than app traffic, and growing faster
#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
The other thing is privacy. I don't want to give every service a "full access" into my phone. At least I have a feeling, that my privacy is in better hands, if I access services using up-to-date mobile browser (or Tinfoil for Facebook) instead of a native app running on my phone. Looking at the ridiculous number of permissions different apps would require to run on my (Android) phone, using mobile site of the most of…
I remember having switchable permissions since 4.3. Did something change in the meantime?
AppOps got canned since 4.4 in AOSP and are coming back in 6.0.
Re: Mobile browser traffic is 2X bigger than app traffic, and growing faster
#99The difference between web and app is trust. A website has write access to my screen, my speakers and my internet connection. Plus limited read access. To keyboard, mouse, device orientation etc. Other rights can be granted (location, cookies etc). It can do all this only as long as it's "open". An app usually has read/write access to large parts of my device. The whole sd-card, raw internet access, the camera, the m…
You're referring, of course, to Android's broken and user-hostile permission model. This is not true of iOS.
Re: Mobile browser traffic is 2X bigger than app traffic, and growing faster
#100The difference between web and app is trust. A website has write access to my screen, my speakers and my internet connection. Plus limited read access. To keyboard, mouse, device orientation etc. Other rights can be granted (location, cookies etc). It can do all this only as long as it's "open". An app usually has read/write access to large parts of my device. The whole sd-card, raw internet access, the camera, the m…
You're referring, of course, to Android's broken and user-hostile permission model. This is not true of iOS.
iOS allows apps to be pretty user-hostile, too. A bunch of apps require location tracking 'always' or 'never' but without an option for 'while using.' Why would I want the Yelp app to know my location when I am not using it?