I have on my Android phone apps from Chase, Citibank, Bank of America, and 4 banks you probably never heard of. I also have apps from almost all major retailers.

Not one of those apps has the full functionality of the desktop browser app. While Walmart is not likely to call and explain this to me, I did speak to the IT dept of a regional bank I have a relationship with. These were young guys who definitely considered themselves with today's world. When I asked about the missing features, they thought I was crazy. They replied didn't I know that connectivity is so not guaranteed and app programming so primitive that it was fortunate they made an app at all, let alone reproduce all the features of the desktop browser apps.

BTW, perhaps you wish to just use your phone to connect to the same site as a desktop browser would, the "full site"? Target, Walmart, and Chase - thier desktop browser apps will not function from an Android phone browser.

>>>Nobody wants a phone app to replace a desktop app either. A phone app is a subset of a full application, where some of hte features are easily accessible on the phone while you're out and about. That's usually report and lookup based data with some basic data entry and updates usually. You can do more but it's obviously tedious.
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>True, but out there I see phone apps replacing not just desktop apps, but desktop browser apps. I'm thinking of Expedia, eBay, Priceline, Amazon, Hotels.com, your bank, your favourite airline, etc etc. Some of them even have functionality not available on the desktop web version- e.g. check deposit by photographing both sides of an endorsed check and it's done, auto check-in and screen boarding pass for United Airlines, better currency management for Expedia compared to the web version. Looking closely I see that many of these actually are hybrid apps rather than complete native systems, but IMHO that's a natural and normal way to express a native app in 2015.
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>Of course I agree there are some apps that it doesn't make sense to transition to devices quite yet, such as apps requiring ultra-high-res large screens or multiple screens or for users who always need to increase font size on their PC screen, but nobody proposes moving those to devices until we get decent retina casting or other means of displaying big data without big screen real estate. Its close with bluetooth screens you can walk up to and use, but there's more to be done. Meantime it seems to me that any sort of app that used to be possible with FP2.x can be run far more attractively and powerfully on a device in 2015.