<story><title>Show HN: Arrived – Stack Overflow for US Immigration</title><url>https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=us.arrived.arrived</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wjmclaugh</author><text>For the majority of Hispanic immigrants, smartphones are their only computing device. I&amp;#x27;m a believer than an app always outdoes a &amp;quot;mobile-friendly&amp;quot; site. Also an app lets you require a user to sign a ToS once after installation without requiring accounts. For a website it&amp;#x27;s not as seamless.</text></item><item><author>Johnny555</author><text>Why is this (apparently) just an app? I&amp;#x27;d much rather have a mobile web site that I can read on any of my devices and not have to install an app on my phone to use it.&lt;p&gt;If StackOverflow were only available as an app, it&amp;#x27;d be much much less useful.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Ajedi32</author><text>&amp;gt; Also an app lets you require a user to sign a ToS once after installation without requiring accounts. For a website it&amp;#x27;s not as seamless.&lt;p&gt;Huh? I don&amp;#x27;t think I&amp;#x27;ve ever visited a purely informational website (like this one apparently is) that required me to sign a ToS just to view it. You just click the link, read whatever information you came for, and leave when you&amp;#x27;re done. That&amp;#x27;s far more &amp;quot;seamless&amp;quot; than having to install an app before you can do anything.</text></comment>
<story><title>Show HN: Arrived – Stack Overflow for US Immigration</title><url>https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=us.arrived.arrived</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wjmclaugh</author><text>For the majority of Hispanic immigrants, smartphones are their only computing device. I&amp;#x27;m a believer than an app always outdoes a &amp;quot;mobile-friendly&amp;quot; site. Also an app lets you require a user to sign a ToS once after installation without requiring accounts. For a website it&amp;#x27;s not as seamless.</text></item><item><author>Johnny555</author><text>Why is this (apparently) just an app? I&amp;#x27;d much rather have a mobile web site that I can read on any of my devices and not have to install an app on my phone to use it.&lt;p&gt;If StackOverflow were only available as an app, it&amp;#x27;d be much much less useful.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cmdrfred</author><text>&amp;gt;I&amp;#x27;m a believer than an app always outdoes a &amp;quot;mobile-friendly&amp;quot; site.&lt;p&gt;I disagree. Downloading and installing a binary blob in order to then download some text is a worse UX for me.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;Also an app lets you require a user to sign a ToS once after installation without requiring accounts.&lt;p&gt;A cookie would solve this problem.&lt;p&gt;I suspect the real reason people keep pushing apps is they are much more monetizable rather than taking the user into account.</text></comment>