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Do we still need web apps? There's notorious sites like reddit who try to push you to visit their web page, so they can serve you ADS.
In visiting a mobile webpage, an adblocker suffices. native apps can utilize advertising APIs, of which there's no way to turn off unless you install their $3.99 "Premium" app.
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> People moan about how it's slow No, I moan about how it's an abuse of my privacy, an abuse of my security & an abuse of the web itself. Web pages which use JavaScript enable all sorts of malicious nastiness which plain websites do not. They are impossible to properly secure (in that I get a new version every time I open it up). They are not what the WWW was meant to be. No thank you.
OK so how is a native application different? You can do the exact same things in a native app.
And a native app is using the APIs of its platform as intended, rather than violating its entire raison d'être, like single page apps violate the Web.
For everything else a hybrid or web app will do.