Re:Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App
by int_19h on Saturday January 05, 2019 @01:53AM
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> No PWA competes with a native experience. Not performance wise, not usability wise, and ultimately for the developer not even development wise.
This would be correct, in theory, if companies only made apps where the extra power that the app has is necessary, and would stick to websites otherwise.
In practice, this isn't true, and anyone who has ever opened any major app store knows that many popular apps in it are, in reality, just wrappers around a webview, and the only reason why they are apps at all is because the management demanded that there is an app, like all the cool kids have these days. Most apps really would be better off as just websites precisely because they don't need anything that an app gives, but often suffer from what it takes (e.g. ad-hoc navigation versus standard browser controls).
This would be correct, in theory, if companies only made apps where the extra power that the app has is necessary, and would stick to websites otherwise.
In practice, this isn't true, and anyone who has ever opened any major app store knows that many popular apps in it are, in reality, just wrappers around a webview, and the only reason why they are apps at all is because the management demanded that there is an app, like all the cool kids have these days. Most apps really would be better off as just websites precisely because they don't need anything that an app gives, but often suffer from what it takes (e.g. ad-hoc navigation versus standard browser controls).