Web apps are decent if you don't want to use memory. But if you want to use anything offline, then you are SOL. Luckily Chrome and other browsers allow you to add sites as webapps to the home screen and WP allows you to pin apps to your home screen. I think iOS allows this as well. So web apps could be more ubiquitous if site creators made decent mobile sites.
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