Comment by pjmlp
9 hours ago
Why do they need to install a PWA?
We do mobile friendly Web UIs, that is enough.
Their customes, employees, go to the respective company website, get a responsive UI for their device, done, the services require to be online anyway.
So they can potentially work offline and deliver push notifications.
Very few applications actually need push notifications, a large majority is only annoying users with upselling, or user engagement.
It’s about convenience in most cases; an “app” to tap on, not a URL to remember and enter or a bookmark to save, name, file, and locate.
Just like apps in general, PWAs are mostly a mobile heavy modality. Bookmarks and the browser is largely still fine on laptop/desktop, but even there you see the app design language start prevailing with things like bookmarks and “recent sites” being presented like app icons.
I swear it is so alien to me. Tapping on an app is equivalent to tapping on a link in my bookmarks.
You could even have a button on website to install an icon on the launcher which goes directly to the site in a webview
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They said that the users are asking for it.
The users are asking for an app on the app store, not a PWA.
Notifications.
Aka upselling and user engagement.