[mdaniel]

I thank goodness I haven't been subjected to (mobile) Apple for many years in order to speak to what they "allow" and don't nowadays, but the short answer is that I want to *fucking own* the hardware I pay fuckloads of money to purchase

Also, while I was typing out the "I want f-droid.org for iOS" I realized there is a pragmatic answer: I want to build and distribute apps without having to pay for the right to do so, not because I am stingy but because paying is gatekeeping. Do you know how much the Joplin devs have to pay Google to put this .apk link here[1]? $0

1: https://joplinapp.org/help/install/#mobile-applications

[explaininjs]

That’s a web app, it’s on them if they don’t want to offer their services without requiring me to let them out of the web sandbox.

[mdaniel]

I presume you didn't follow the link I pointed to, which for sure points an .apk URL

Now, if you're trying to be extra cute by saying "react native is a webpage with more steps," I'm not trying to have that fight, but I can assure you with 100% confidence that Joplin's apk loads without Internet connectivity, making it not meet my definition of "a web app"

[explaininjs]

I did in fact follow the link. I actually went further than you, all the way to the GitHub, where I saw that it was actually just a web app. All TS.

And you can 100% load PWAs offline, which might be slightly more progressive than your idea of a web app, but I hope not overly so.

[dishsoap]

Wow, you have completely missed the parent poster's point!

Whether or not the specific app used as an example happens to be a webapp holds no relevance to what he was saying overall.