• Rufio@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    That is likely a benefit but let’s be honest the real reason is that a web version would require a lot of additional overhead especially to staff enough engineers.

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      1 year ago

      A web wrapper for the platform would be effectively no effort, especially for a company like Facebook. The difficulties would be losing out on tracking data and dealing with annoyances like adblock

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        1 year ago

        I wouldn’t be surprised if they are working on something now and just wanted to get the app out as an mvp.

    • ShunkW@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      This makes no sense honestly. Making a captive web app is easier than supporting two apps.