Posted by 0xblinq 10/28/2025
> Here’s where this gets bigger than framework choice. When you ship a native app to the App Store or Google Play instead of building a web app, you’re not just making a technical decision. You’re accepting a deal that would’ve been unthinkable twenty years ago. Apple and Google each take up to 30% of every transaction (with exceptions depending on program and category). They set rules. They decide what you can ship. They can revoke your access tomorrow with no recourse. You have no alternative market. You can’t even compete on price because the fee is baked into many transactions.
Ugh. That thinking is what gets you things like mandatory login via apps for your desktop. And not every application makes sense on a phone. And some Web Applications just require low latency high bandwidth internet to work properly.
But the vast majority do not. And this haranguing is an opportunity / defensible position to put more efforts and resources into performances. If nothing else, think of it as a Trojan horse to make software suck less.
Even a php app without decorations would be faster and better for most applications.
My experience has been that the proliferation of mobile devices has made my desktop experience consistently worse and I struggle to come up with an example where it didn't.
"the web is mobile" = strictly "apps" ?
Thanks ChatGPT for your valuable slop. Next article.
Your attitude is exactly why our supercomputers struggle to display even the simplest things with any kind of performance, and why pure text takes multiple seconds to appear
dist/assets/app.css 98.33 kB │ gzip: 17.69 kB
dist/assets/app.js 1,050.14 kB │ gzip: 244.88 kB
built in 15.41s
You might want to fix your horizontal scroll on mobile. I should basically never have a full page horizontal scrollbar on a page that is mostly just text.