GitHub Should Start an App Store

Re:GitHub Should Start an App Store by Closi on Sunday January 31, 2021 @12:38PM (#25980655)

> The pendulum has shifted, and it's swinging towards PWA.

It has for some things, and for others native is king. Native just delivers experiences that PWA can’t (yet).

To take a simple example - let’s consider a ‘timer app’. On iPhone I ask Siri to set me a timer for 5 minutes, it sets the timer and I walk away from my phone. 15 minutes the timer pings on my watch where I can accept it. There are multiple steps in this user story that a PWA currently struggles with, including:

* (Reliable) backgrounding

* Siri integration

* Notifications

* Apple Watch support

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Re:GitHub Should Start an App Store by throwaway3699 on Sunday January 31, 2021 @12:54PM (#25980822)

These are all artificial problems created by Apple, though. The first three are all doable on Android PWAs, and you can do everything with a TWA in the Play Store.

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Re:GitHub Should Start an App Store by Closi on Sunday January 31, 2021 @01:53PM (#25981396)

I don’t disagree, although I think these reasons do mean that it’s far too early to say “App stores are dying” as in the post I was replying to - at least in Apple’s case they are still central, and even seem to be becoming more core with deeper integration into MacOS.

Also, in this context, a TWA isn’t useful as the post is about avoiding an App Store / central control using PWA.

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Re:GitHub Should Start an App Store by acct776 on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @01:23AM (#25997938)

Apple's case, until the users revolt hard enough/some killer webapp on Android doesn't work the same on iOS.

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