Because of gatekeepers 😂

Because phones have browsers

Apple app review guidelines plus you need to KYC to be a developer on App Store , progressive web apps are a way to bypass this.

🤔Why are they easier to create?

Because mobile users visit an average of 100 websites per month but only install 3 apps per month.

Tried this battle long ago. 92% of the world is mobile. Laptops and desktops are mainly used for school and gaming now. Nostr needs more mobile devs.

1. It's a lot easier to make a web app. 2. Devs are extremely biased towards using computers instead of phones, even though very few people prefer that option. 3. The Nostr support/base libraries/signers/etc on the web is way better.

They are holding out for the return of the web.

I’ve been experimenting with a remote signer app for iOS similar to amber using iPhone’s credential provider api. It could be pretty nice. (Autofill a nip 46 event without leaving the app. similar to how a password manager autofills a password text field) I’ve hit a roadblock due to the face ...

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They could be doing PWAs

TBH Developing custom apps (especially for Android) is a huge pain

how about a web app that points to the mobile download 🤔?

mobile dev is harder than it should be

Because I've spent the last 2.5 months arguing with Apple to even get a developer account set up for White Noise, AND I STILL DON'T HAVE ONE. The rest of my time over the last month has been debugging arcane strangeness in Android. For the most part, building on mobile sucks. And most people don'...

I use my phone a lot, but I prefer to still do plenty on my desktop, like nostr. It's much easier to type and I like the bigger screen, so I still see a market in the web app world.

because according to #Pareto, is the 10% that moves everything. simple as that

because web apps can be used on any phone, while phone apps can only be used o nthe phones they where made for.

good point there's not a single good mobile nostr client. it either performs terribly or looks terrible. Just make something *pretty* and in dart/flutter so it works everywhere... it's really not hard, I'd do it if I had time to do it

You probably know that in Brazil it's likely even higher.

Irony !!

do people download app? I go straight to the browser.

A better question is why are 90% of users using something compromised from the beginning...

I think developers have an unconscious bias, thinking that normal people use laptops/desktops a lot, because they do. This isn't real for most people. Plenty of people just use mobile devices exclusively, or near enough.

I doubt 90% of developers are making web apps, but are 9x more making web apps than mobile apps? Conceivably https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/developer-profile/#4-developer-type though that might hinge on whether "full stack" is understood to be _web_ front+back end (full stack: 30.7%, mobile: 3...

You can use one development environment¹ to offer an app to iOS, Android, desktop users and even to alternative mobile OSs like #SailfishOS.