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Re:Progressive Web Apps Are Competing with the Apple App Store by blacktriangle on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @03:54PM (#26798223)
Sadly I ran into this exact problem. We did a small PWA as a trial to see how our customers would respond. The number of "I can't find it in the App Store" emails we got was massive. No matter how many tutorials we put together showing that you can turn the web app into a home screen icon we sent out, we could not dig users out of the App Store mentality.
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Re:Progressive Web Apps Are Competing with the Apple App Store by ethn on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @04:49PM (#26799076)
Did you end up being forced to make a mobile app?
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Re:Progressive Web Apps Are Competing with the Apple App Store by blacktriangle on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @05:41PM (#26799712)
Yes, we ended up doing both native Android and iOS, which has been manageable but we're looking to try and push PWA again for the next project to reduce the overhead of dual platform support.
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Re:Progressive Web Apps Are Competing with the Apple App Store by raarts on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @06:07PM (#26799973)
How about putting a small app in the store that just installs the web app and then uninstalls itself ( don't know if that's possible)?
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Re:Progressive Web Apps Are Competing with the Apple App Store by atat7024 on Thursday April 15, 2021 @03:23AM (#26817141)
Or is just a web-wrapper?

This is a solved problem.

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Re:Progressive Web Apps Are Competing with the Apple App Store by nguyenkien on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @12:10AM (#26802844)
I doubt apple let you do it
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Re:Progressive Web Apps Are Competing with the Apple App Store by jamra on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @04:19PM (#26798644)
You can tell them it requires an invite then link them to your page.
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