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Re:Progressive Web Apps Will Replace Native Apps? by pjmlp on Thursday March 12, 2020 @12:36PM (#22558628)
More than those that can afford iDevices.

I target devices that customers actually have, not what they might have on local store windows.

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Re:Progressive Web Apps Will Replace Native Apps? by scarface74 on Thursday March 12, 2020 @12:40PM (#22558675)
The average selling price of an Android phone is $250. How many of those have decent GPUs or perform well enough to run web apps as well as native apps?

Ironically, iPhones do better on web benchmarks than almost any Android phone.

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Re:Progressive Web Apps Will Replace Native Apps? by pjmlp on Thursday March 12, 2020 @01:00PM (#22558913)
Plenty, if one doesn't bomb them with SPAs to draw static text.
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Re:Progressive Web Apps Will Replace Native Apps? by scarface74 on Thursday March 12, 2020 @01:13PM (#22559101)
That may be true, but you specifically said....

Web apps:

- Fast with WebGL 2.0, and proper use of hardware accelerated CSS

- Limited access is actually a positive

- WebAssembly

None of that is going run well on the average low end Android phone.

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