Why do apps for Android/iOS/Windows/MacOS exist? Why aren’t all apps just simply “web apps” that run in browsers?

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Why do apps for Android/iOS/Windows/MacOS exist? Why aren’t all apps just simply “web apps” that run in browsers?

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Initially, with iOS, that’s how Steve Jobs envisioned it. But there are different issues that arise from this. One being you’d need constant access to the internet for web apps. Secondly, they honestly wouldn’t look as appealing.

ChromeOS runs web based apps, and there are severe limitations with that OS because of it.

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