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Most consumers want real apps, not webapps, and mobile browsers don't make webapps easy to launch and use either.


Except on Reddit. People constantly complain about ads for the better than the web page app.


Complaints about the ads are not complaints about the app.


We should help change the conversation on that.


Sure, but how do we retrain billions of users? And more importantly, how should we convince two massive companies that take 30% of all appstore revenue to give up their control?


I think it starts by bringing up privacy concerns. Of course, a lot of us are culprits in privacy invasion but the rest of us should be constantly reminding people that when they install an app they might be giving up more than they realize.




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