Re:The web is swallowing the desktop whole (2017)
by toastal on Thursday September 09, 2021 @01:13AM
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Yes. We had to do native because there are no Push Notifications on Safari mobile. I understand people hating the permission pop-ups on marketing-saturated blogs and other places that don't need it, but that's the whole purpose of a web app is to be more app-like and less static-website-like.
Re:The web is swallowing the desktop whole (2017)
by Razengan on Thursday September 09, 2021 @12:30AM
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Web apps purposefully cripple mobile performance, battery life and accessibility. Nothing is going to change until this changes.
Re:The web is swallowing the desktop whole (2017)
by smackeyacky on Thursday September 09, 2021 @12:41AM
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Not to mention device level access like Bluetooth integration, making phone calls, using the camera etc. Mobile apps are hard to do as web apps if they are anything more complex than a front end for some web system.
Apple has made it so that every browser on their mobile devices is basically really Safari under the hood. And they have purposefully crippled Safari to push developers to the lucrative app store. Nothing is going to change until this changes, either through consumer behavior or through legislation.