Native Mobile apps are dead: Build a bot or Progressive Web app

Africa is often touted as a Mobile-first continent – which is mostly right. But Playing in the mobile space is not easy; first the telecoms will squeeze you out of their jealously guarded network. This is has been the cry of developers for a while now. Developers are left with building apps that users won’t download or use because of what’s now known as “App fatigue”. The latest stats indicate that an average mobile users downloads Zero apps per month. So what to do?

Boom. Enter Bots and progressive mobile apps. Read my post and why I think this is the next frontier of mobile in Africa. Find out how one Startup in Uganda has gone all out on a Bots-only platform.

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LOL! Why so confuse? PWAs are the future of mobile.

We’ve been here before. I don’t know if the OP wants to start a flame war. Fact is, ALL OF them have their uses AND will continue to coexist for the near future.