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Yeah, but where's your mobile app though? 😂

The overhead of having to maintain a app + the website version is too big for most small projects developers to do it consistently. Still, is many cases is better to have PWA + website than just APP

Unless it's graphic intensive and needs to gobble off tracking data, access to FaceID (no thanks! in this age of forced surveillance) and vanity metrics for investors, a PWA is more than enough. Detest vanity apps - waste of space, metaphorically and literally 😏

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I hate apps in general. Everything can and should happen in web browsers. I mean almost everything. I don't want native apps cluttering my system either. Like the difference in speed between opening a reddit link in a new tab compared to letting it redirect to the app is ridiculous. Most apps are shit. Most web apps are shit too. Most developers are shit. This is what motivates me. Mobile web dev is lacking. Most apps are totally redundant.

Like I can either stay behind my content blockers and the isolation that comes from being in a browser, or use some shit native app that's poorly optimized, designed by retards, and full of ads.

I generally agree. But even Steve Job’s original vision for apps were web based. While PWA’s aren’t there yet, and won’t be for a long time, I think it’s a good goal to strive for though. Devs should build native apps first but also build PWA’s, resources willing, to continue to push it forward.

Also if you choose to make an app and put it on the App Store then take the time to first research what the tradeoffs are so you're not being publicly shocked and horrified every other week to learn of some new policy-driven tradeoff that you could have known about all along.

Then build a website, not a PWA

Imagine every app store and app needs your passport. This is actually a current proposal for the Chat Control in the EU. An apk file is better, but that doesn't work on iOS. PWAs, besides apks, can circumvent to give away personal info.

Sucks. But 99% of the users will be on the AppStores.

Aren't most apps just PWAs in an app wrapper. Some of the apps I use are literally Safari without the address bar to the point that my ad blocker still blocks half the stuff in it when I load it.

Yes. Also proton "desktop" apps. It all makes me laugh.

Regressive Web App (RWA)

have fun setting up metro

Fails to load?

No.

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PWAs are fantastic!!!

The unfortunate reality is that they would be a lot better if useful mobile browser apis weren't a direct threat to Apple's revenue model.

a PWA is a website with a shortcut on your home screen

Doesn't work on lockdown mode, and horrible UX