If a 120MB app is required just to display an itinerary PDF, that's an architecture problem, not a UX problem.

I usually prefer apps to sites if there’s any usability improvement over the webpage - which there usually is.

If the app just shows a webpage then no.

I actually prefer apps because I don't have to wait for each page to load, initialize, see the UI shifting a 100 times. If I had to open webpages for things I use regularly, that would drive me insane. Maybe that says something about web dev standards

I think yeah, most apps can be webpages, but the biggest used apps can also be webpages, (insta, facebook, x) and so on , I think the only real indicator is how much people are using the apps, not if it's simpler just to do a webpage

Y'all are missing a huge benefit of apps: offline use. The #1 reason I download apps for every booking website I use for example.

Booking a flight on the website and then being told I need the app just to see my boarding pass drives me nuts.

I keep telling that outside games, most apps could be done as plain mobile Web, emphasis on mobile Web, not the PWA kludge of workers and what not.

100% agree with this.

I've been wanting to write an article on a very similar topic myself for some time now. Perhaps I'll finish it and share it here. Absolutely done with this modern 'convenience' and app culture.

I thought he had created an website which ran an APK server-side and was loadable in a browser. Oh well.