Progressive Web Apps Will Replace Native Apps?

Re:Progressive Web Apps Will Replace Native Apps? by akmarinov on Thursday March 12, 2020 @06:21AM (#22555329)

No, they won't.

No way is Apple giving up their 30%, if they can help it.

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Re:Progressive Web Apps Will Replace Native Apps? by tarkin2 on Thursday March 12, 2020 @06:53AM (#22555471)

And they control the web browser engines on iPhones. And keep those with fewer capabilities than native apps. See the HTML audio recording API for an example.

Apple have a massive financial incentive to ensure PWAs aren’t as good as native apps. If people start seeing PWAs as better or as good as native apps, say goodbye to the iPhone.

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Re:Progressive Web Apps Will Replace Native Apps? by threeseed on Thursday March 12, 2020 @07:06AM (#22555534)

MediaRecorder API is in Safari OSX as an experimental feature and it looks like it's actually not working properly in WebKit: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85851

To be honest it doesn't seem like developers are jumping up and down for it so it's easy to understand why it's not a priority. It's open source so you're welcome to fix it I suppose.

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Re:Progressive Web Apps Will Replace Native Apps? by tarkin2 on Thursday March 12, 2020 @11:49AM (#22558054)

They have to accept the patch.

Currently if you want a website that records audio, and you want an iphone user to use it, you have to make a native app, just what Apple would prefer.

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