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by esprehn 1263 days ago
There's a bunch that run very well on Android: Twitter, Instagram, Uber, Lyft, even TikTok all have very good PWAs.

TikTok aggressively funnels you into the native app for various business reasons, but the experience is well polished if they'd let you use it all the time.

Safari (really that iOS won't let you pick a different browser) has definitely been holding back the growth of PWAs though. Without decent install to home screen support (apple doesn't implement install banners for web), no push notifications, many of the native API integrations missing, it's hard to go too far down the web path before the business folks want the native app for growth angles. It's a lot more about making money than the better UX that can be had with native.

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> many of the native API integrations missing

Those "native API integrations" are Chrome-only non-standards that neither Safari nor Firefox are ever going to implement.