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by rejhgadellaa 82 days ago
>> If your app doesn't work for the wealthiest 50% of users, why go that route?

> Why doesn't business hire two teams? One for the amazing native-like PWA, and one for iOS?

You quote me, but missed the exact part where I already answered that question (I presume by accident ;)), so I'll just repeat myself:

> Yes. The web's winning feature is "it works everywhere". If your app doesn't work for the wealthiest 50% of users, why go that route? Making a desktop web app work on mobile, just for Android, is a lot of work. It needs to work on both iOS and Android to make it worthwhile.

For background, this piece by Alex Russell is worth reading:

Platform Adjacency Theory

https://infrequently.org/2020/06/platform-adjacency-theory/