> minor bugs with PWAs on iOS
There are major bugs with PWA's, and I suspect most of them stem from the tens of billions of dollars per year of app store revenue that would be undermined if PWA's actually became useful...
> minor bugs with PWAs on iOS
There are major bugs with PWA's, and I suspect most of them stem from the tens of billions of dollars per year of app store revenue that would be undermined if PWA's actually became useful...
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44483280.
Well, yeah... of course. Thankfully, mobile support hasn't been the highest priority.
Users aren’t demanding and have never demanded good PWA support. I suspect it has more to do with that.
Random people have no business of knowing what a “PWA” is. So of course they don’t ask specifically for that.
People asking for “I just want to have fully featured apps coming from wherever” are aplenty. Apple has pushed app snippets and in-AppStore one shot apps for a long time. These would be much better as PWAs.
Not because PWAs are inherently better. I believe native programs are superior. However history has shown that vast majority of apps are just poorly wrapped websites.
As an aside, iOS PWA support is really phoned in. For example they introduced environmental css variables for safe insets. And then provided no way to test them outside of real device or a simulator.
I’d bet they would if they were offered a nearly 30% price reduction.