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[Alan Bell <alanbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 05/06/15 10:46, Davide Alberelli wrote:
> @Alan
> Well, the "bookmark" is my experience with webapps.
> All the webapps that I daily use are nothing more than bookmarks 
> (gmail, dict, OSM, Amazon, tumblr, various games, ecc) and often the 
> websites themselves say that I should use the native app for Android 
> instead of going to the website ;)
> All the other features that you are mentioning sound definitely 
> interesting, but none of them are useful to me now, nor I have seen 
> them yet anywhere in my daily experience.
> So, why should I use a webapp instead of going to the website? The 
> only reason that I have in my daily experience is because it is a nice 
> bookmark.
>
> Davide Alberelli
yeah, I think those ones should not exist (or should be something else, 
there is no reason there shouldn't be a shared bookmarks and ratings 
system built into the platform, that used to be a popular concept, like 
stumbleupon)
There are a few webapps that do contain some active code I think, google 
plus, facebook, gmail and so on. Stuff to fix the experience or add 
platform notifications or whatever. These deserve to exist, the 
bookmarklets don't.