Yet you didn’t name any. If that were the case, you should be able to name the equivalent web apps on Android that must be apps on iOS.
> Software is not suddenly without value just because it doesn’t make money.
So where are those “valuable” web apps on Android? Also revenue is the most objective way to measure value.
Nonsense. Wikipedia must be worthless for you? What about air? Do you feel you'd breathe with more satisfaction if someone was profiting from the air you breathe?
On the other hand, there's plenty of immensely profitable things that have negative value. Cigarettes? Oil? Weapons? Opioids? I could go on and on.
“Value” has a definite meaning in economics. If someone is willing to pay for something, it has value to them.
What better choice do we have than to measure value across a population? How much value a population places on something based on how much they are willing to pay is objective. Whether that value is utilitarian or based on other factors is subjective.
Are we really arguing about basic supply and demand? Yes suppliers have methods to drive demand.
Reddit, Trello, Twitter. Probably Discord and Slack too.
I haven't used Android in years but I certainly don't see why these wouldn't work as web apps if you had push notifications. All the functionality is there.
That's why you're asking the wrong question.
You should see a proliferation of cases where companies create an iOS app and a web app for everyone else.
> How many apps [could] be viable as a website if only iOS Safari had push notifications[?]
I’d say a lot.
> [How many of them] would actually bring in any significant amount of revenue?
Adding this caveat doesn’t change my answer—but I really don’t like what it's implying. Software is not suddenly without value just because it doesn’t make money.