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If you value your privacy and you have a choice between using a browser to access a service vs installing their app, use the browser.
Online services can get much more information about you through an app vs the browser. Browsers are generally locked down more. Apps in general have access to much more information from your device.
Department lead.
The website team is small, but incredibly effective. Everything works. Everything is mobile friendly, responsive, fast. It's a way better experience.
I love my app developers, but they're always behind. Not their own fault. Mobile development is complicated. There's so many screen sizes, iOS vs Android differences, platform permissions, etc.
The big reason for us to push the App on people was to get more brand awareness on the App Store. But the website is so much more better.
You literally can use it as a web app right into your phone and get a better experience.
And it'll be such a dark day when I have to dissolve the App team (and hopefully convince them into web dev)
But where is has the compromise happened? The Kotlin/Flutter/swift code written? The database? not being sarcastic just unaware.