[brazukadev]

> Installing any app I want outside the Play Store was the primary reason I decided to go with Android

You still can do that with PWAs in Android. Let's see for how long.

[01HNNWZ0MV43FF]

Do you have a single friend who isn't a programmer who has installed a PWA in the last two years?

[jezek2]

Game streaming services like GeForce Now, Xbox Live, Amazon Luna use PWAs for iOS/iPad support, used by a lot of ordinary users. They're not in AppStore because of incompatibility with Apple rules.

[schlauerfox]

I use 3CX VOIP app as a PWA daily, I'm just an IT worker.

[_imnothere]

> PWAs

And I wonder when can we stop lying to ourselves pretending "web"-apps are real (native) apps?

[llbbdd]

Why?

[pooyamo]

Can you create and run a service that starts when phone is turned on, with a PWA app? Usecase is a backup daemon.

[claytongulick]

Does every app need to do this?

I make lots of "real" healthcare apps that are PWAs.

Much better installation and user experience, no dev cert nonsense, brain dead simple updates, no app store, etc...

[01HNNWZ0MV43FF]

Backup, file sync, and chat... very common and important use cases. Not everything can start with a user request.

[Rohansi]

You shouldn't need a service running all the time for chat. Just use push notifications.

[koolala]

There is a big difference between Websites and Applications. Websites are a smaller subset of capabilities.