Comment by bad_user

5 years ago

> Name three PWA apps please

Fastmail, Facebook, Twitter.

None of them work on iOS due to lacking web push notifications. All of them can work on Android as PWAs and as PWAs they are more secure and privacy friendly (not only due to less permissions granted, but also because you can protect yourself with uBlock Origin et all).

Keep in mind that your personal experience is an anecdote.

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NovemberWhiskey  5 years ago

>Fastmail, Facebook, Twitter.

I don't Android, so I really don't know - but are those PWAs the only or primary options for most users on the Android platform?

If not, they're really just "native apps which are also available as PWAs", and without data on relative adoption rates it's not really very useful information.

  • bad_user  5 years ago

    So you're invoking popularity, but I don't understand what that has to do with it.

    I use web apps all the time, even on mobile. And I'm sure I'm not alone.

    Speaking of which Fastmail's Android and iOS apps are just the web app packaged in a native shell ;-) and they are not alone. For them clearly it was cost efective to work on that web app.

    As for why they bothered to package their web app in a native shell? Maybe that's were the problem is.