Comment by kelthuzad
8 months ago
> There isn't just Apple, there's also Google which is a big promoter of PWA's, and in fact they popularized the term.
Google is the primary champion of PWAs, they have a vested interest in its success. The reason I focused on Apple is because its actions are one of a profit-maximizing gatekeeper actively defending its most lucrative business against an existential threat that is PWA. Every bug, every delayed feature, and every artificial limitation imposed on PWAs on iOS is a calculated strategic move in this defense of its walled garden that makes maximum taxation possible.
>PWA's just never took off.
That's just the lazy manufactured and false narrative that I've already thoroughly debunked. I'm not going to repeat it, since you would just ignore it again.
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>I’m building a PWA right now in the drone automation space. I can feel the sparsity of the ecosystem.
What are you talking about? The ecosystem of the web is VASTLY SUPERIOR to anything else. You're just desperately trying to score a point where the is none to score. You don't have to bend over backwards in defense of gatekeepers like Apple (unless you are a massive shareholder)
>A lot of people following this discussion are all devs in the web space.
I am a web dev myself. I actually started out as a software engineer by making iOS apps.
>However, your prejudice for people has already sealed the future of your discussion, regardless of whether your prejudice is correct.
You're projecting, since I've zero prejudice that's why I made arguments based on concrete evidence and consistently backed up my claims.
By saying we're all web devs here, I mean you should've already expected that we have an impression of job posts, Reddit, Hacker News, Google Search¹ trends, Github ecosystem, or even npm download trends. We start the argument there.
> That's just the lazy manufactured and false narrative that I've already thoroughly debunked. I'm not going to repeat it, since you would just ignore it again.
But of course you've brought nothing of the like to this discussion, so I don't know wtf you're thinking when you say you've brought the "thorough" debunking. I looked over your discussion history just to be sure I didn't miss anything because there's the implication of another post somewhere else. There's nothing to be missed, everyone is free to look at your history and your concept of thorough analysis.²
I bring up Google because I care about Android. PWAs absolutely could have a chance to win in Android land over Kotlin, React Native, or Flutter. And now Google just talks about it less and less.
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44692070
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