You know, an article about deep linking might be more meaningful if they took their own advice and deep linked to what "deep linking" is (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_deep_linking" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_deep_linking</a>). This <i>IS</i> a hypertext medium you know.
I was expecting an explanation of what deep linking is, the way the article is written it lacks context: if you don't know what is "deep linking", it doesn't make much sense.<p>OK, <i>closes tab</i>.
Do people really clutter their phone with every random website app? Most of them appear to be marginally better at rendering the website for the low, low price of scraping some subset of your personal data.<p>I use Android profiles for the simple reason that I don't agree some random app needs to know every email or phone number in my address book,much less mine my text history. The few apps I use go to a profile hooked to my ham email address. Still not perfect.<p>But deep linking via apps? What's the compelling use case again? I don't see one that doesn't work just as well on the mobile web site.
Except that iOS deep linking isn't natively supported, you have to do it through DeviceFingerpting and even if it was setup correctly you'd have to go through a lot of effort to do it.