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It's true, but a current version of a native app has minimum OS version requirements that make running on an old phone impossible. If you're just willing to have the same hardware requirements for mobile web, you've got hardware that can render text and images and buttons just fine.


To render text in a browser, you are looking at a 10x cost in power.

to animate anything, you are looking at 100x cost in power.

This means that you will drain the battery much much faster than with native.

The solution is not using webtools, its making native much more open/portable. you know like java was supposed to be (kinda like how APKs are now. )


If you render text in a browser, you have support for selection, translation, links that the user can open either in the same or in a new tab ...




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