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Re:I replaced my native iOS app with a cross platform web ap... by bambax on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @05:11AM (#31246243)
The problem of the post is that it advocates two things at once: publish apps using Ionic, and/or just go the webapp route (like Wordle).

It's a little hard to understand, if the performance of webapps is actually indistinguishable from that of native apps, why anyone would choose the app store route. Is it for distribution purposes? Payments?

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Re:I replaced my native iOS app with a cross platform web ap... by the_gipsy on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @05:38AM (#31246384)
Notifications are not supported on iOS Safari. All iOS browsers run safari's webview under the hood. Android has notifications since a decade or so.

It's not hard to make the connection to apple's appstore 30% cut.

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