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EGregtoday at 7:38 PM1 replyview on HN

On iOS, I think the only two reasons to have an app are: notifications and access to contacts.


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tlhtoday at 9:23 PM

Rich widgets on the Home Screen are valuable too. As a web developer, I wish I were able to make widgets for people to put on their Home Screen to perform certain actions in less clicks, or have information from my (web) apps easily viewable at a glance. Which I know they would want. Right now, as far as I’m aware, for me to do that in iOS (and possibly Android) is to build those in native land.