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Re:Betting on the Web – Why I Build PWAs by jimktrains2 on Monday September 11, 2017 @01:55PM (#15220552)
> > You don't have to create a native app because PWAs now offer all the functionality of a native app.

I didn't think you could do arbitrary network or disk I/O. The sandbox is really, really nice for many applications, but PWAs aren't suitable for all native applications.

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Re:Betting on the Web – Why I Build PWAs by honestlyreally on Monday September 11, 2017 @07:47PM (#15223517)
My thoughts exactly, wondering why so many here are saying they are equivalent? PWA disk usage has tiny limits.

For the curious: https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/instant-and-o...

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