[nickalekhine]

Better PWA support gives users (and developers) more optionality with app distribution. Apple building out these APIs would not take away from their native apps.

The UX of visiting a site and with a single click of a button having an app on my home screen sounds great. I'd also like to have the option of side loading a native app too. And if those options sound unappealing, you can keep using the App Store if you want the assurance of using an 'officially approved' app.

A lot of very prominent apps are written using web technologies anyways. Take a look at the continued popularity of React Native (and Flutter as well).

[nozzlegear]

> A lot of very prominent apps are written using web technologies anyways. Take a look at the continued popularity of React Native (and Flutter as well).

And it shows through their laggy interfaces and non-native UI/UX. The people don't like apps built with web tech; developers and LLMs like them because they're a shortcut.

[rejhgadellaa]

> The people don't like apps built with web tech

Then why do most people spend > 90% of their time in a browser (or web-powered app) on desktop?

[nozzlegear]

Irrelevant, we're talking about mobile here.

[rejhgadellaa]

How is that irrelevant? Isn't it important to ask the question "why did this thing work on desktop, but not on mobile?"

[genthree]

No choice.

[rejhgadellaa]

Funny you would say that. Because businesses and users have only one choice on iOS: native apps, because the web app isn't viable (and/or available) on iOS.

[genthree]

Yeah, it’s great.