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Re:PWA Store by julianwachholz on Friday April 24, 2020 @04:10AM (#22965716)
I'd argue that many people wouldn't know wether they were looking at a PWA or a native application written in a JS container format (like react-native).

I can't think of a way that native apps are more convenient? With automatic updates it's even less convenient to have the updates go through the app store.

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Re:PWA Store by aabbcc1241 on Friday April 24, 2020 @07:29AM (#22966849)
They may not distinct visually, but iPhone user without chrome can definitely tell.

I totally agree with you, I developed a PWA and 'native app' which is mostly an webview of the same content. I often use the PWA version but it seems most (if not all) of my users are using the app version even when the app stores approve updates in a notifiable slower rate.

My native app do used some native plugin, but those functions are not often used by the users. So I feel they just blindly ask for apps.

Maybe they think native app loads faster than PWA? People don't want to wait for a SPA first-time loading but they won't blame the download and install time of native apps.

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