[OkayPhysicist]

Honestly, they probably would have been perfectly happy with a bookmark on their home screen, but have you ever tried walking someone who doesn't know how to enter a url into their browser through the process of making a home page bookmark on their phone?

Ultimately I ended up making a PWA that does nothing except act as a bookmark. Which was way more of a PITA than it should have been.

[ksec]

>Ultimately I ended up making a PWA that does nothing except act as a bookmark.

Which is exactly what I was going to reply to your original post.

I am willing to bet 80-90% of user don't want / need / care if it is an Native app. They simply want the website / PWA bookmark icon on their App Screen selection.

The problem right now is the experienced of getting a PWA on to an App screen is not user friendly or in someway user hostile because it goes against the fundamental service revenue of their App Store model.

[gymhasanapp]

That and Apple ACTIVELY does not want PWA to catch on and be user friendly.

If a stupid website is turned into an App, then any purchases made through it instantly get slapped with a transaction fee straight to Tim Apple's pockets. There was a whole court case with John Epic about this and everything.

A PWA would bypass that. They really, really, really, really, really dont want that.

[RetroTechie]

Sounds like what could be a useful built-in OS feature. Along the lines of:

"Aim camera at QR code to put "open-link" icon on your home screen"

Does something like that not exist?

[Ajedi32]

Devs can pretty easily implement this on their site using the BeforeInstallPromptEvent.prompt method.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web...

Though of course...

> This is not supported on iOS.

[foxygen]

It could, right? But let me tell you a secret: Apple doesn't want PWAs/web apps and actively limits Safari to force developers to build apps.

[DANmode]

Apple especially has made this intentionally painful.

It used to be worse.