[troupo]

> If the company dominating their hardware did any better

Apple doesn't dominate all of hardware. Google, however, dominates major access points to the internet, and used it to aggressively promote its browser.

> No, at this point I really do just mean "feature-filled".

I doubt it

> iOS has notoriously restrictive APIs and it makes full sense that those users would want a browser do do the things Apple prevents their iPhone from doing natively.

Ah. So you are talking about Google-only non-standards

> I wouldn't be surprised if next-gen iPhone apps were just PWAs that hook into WebGPU

Android has been the dominant OS for over a decade now. It has no real or perceived limitations of iOS. We've yet to see a single amazing PWA future we hear so much about.

[talldayo]

> We've yet to see a single amazing PWA future we hear so much about.

Then maybe it's time you gave Android another try. Chrome runs on mobile just as well as it does on desktop, so any of the web apps you use on your computer work fine on phone too. It makes modern Safari look like a tofu browser substitute by comparison.

[troupo]

> Then maybe it's time you gave Android another try. Chrome runs on mobile just as well as it does on desktop

So?

> so any of the web apps you use on your computer work fine on phone too.

So where's the amazing PWA future we hear so much about. All the "amazing web apps" we hear about are shitty slow bad monstrosities that can barely display a few lines of text without jank.

The very few actual great apps which are made ad great engineering effort and expense (like Figma) don't run in full mode on mobile for obvious reasons.

So, my question remains and you haven't answered it.

Edit: There are some web apps here and there which are surprisingly good. E.g. I'm quite impressed by Foodora's app. And it runs well on iOS, too. However, 99.9999999% of the "great PWA future" is just garbage despite the "Chrome runs just as well on Android".