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by mulmen 858 days ago
I understand the benefits of PWAs for developers. Can someone explain to me the benefits for users? From a UX perspective how is a PWA superior to a native app?
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For users, one of the ways PWAs are superior to native apps is that the user gets to use an app at all. It's hard to maintain 2 or 3 different codebases of an app, which means it might not get built at all. As a user, I'd rather use a decent app that exists, than not get to use an app at all.
The benefit is my app exists.

I'm not buying a mac or paying for an apple developer license, sorry.

No need to open App Store to download 100MB update every month.
That the app exists.