It&#x27;s absolutely true that a native application can be more functional than a mobile friendly website.<p>When it comes to websites that try to force their app upon you when visiting their mobile website, my experience has almost always bee
n the application is as bad as, if not worse than, the website&#x27;s functionality.  This gets to my point that if your developers are not
 capable of building a decent mobile friendly website then they are probably not any better at building an app.<p>Also I hinted at the fact that in many cases these apps appear to be designed to track users and invade users privacy.  Why else do so
 many need access to contact lists and more when their functionality doesn&#x27;t remotely require it.