Re:Progressive Web Apps Will Replace Native Apps?
by mpweiher on Thursday March 12, 2020 @06:17AM
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"Developers now had to use a native SDK to build an app for the iPhone."
Patently untrue. They were finally allowed to use native API, which they had noisily demanded. And they were still allowed to use the "sweet solution" of (progressive) web apps, an idea that took off like a lead balloon and whose announcement was met with cold silence.
And the alternative to native apps is not "web apps" (progressive or not), it's web sites. When engagement is not high enough to warrant installing a native app, it's not high enough for any app.
This isn't just theory either. For example, I worked on Wunderlist, and one of the major factors for its success was native apps on all major platforms, a point confirmed by the numbers and general feedback as well reiterated time and time again when talking to individual users.
This despite having a web app that absolutely rocked.
And of course there are numerous other examples, for example Facebook going back from a web app to a native one etc.
Patently untrue. They were finally allowed to use native API, which they had noisily demanded. And they were still allowed to use the "sweet solution" of (progressive) web apps, an idea that took off like a lead balloon and whose announcement was met with cold silence.
https://www.macstories.net/stories/before-the-app-store-the-...
And the alternative to native apps is not "web apps" (progressive or not), it's web sites. When engagement is not high enough to warrant installing a native app, it's not high enough for any app.
This isn't just theory either. For example, I worked on Wunderlist, and one of the major factors for its success was native apps on all major platforms, a point confirmed by the numbers and general feedback as well reiterated time and time again when talking to individual users.
This despite having a web app that absolutely rocked.
And of course there are numerous other examples, for example Facebook going back from a web app to a native one etc.