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by ksec 14 days ago
>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.
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gymhasanapp 14 days ago
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.

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