Your 'App' Could Have Been a Webpage (so I fixed it for you)

Re:Your 'App' Could Have Been a Webpage (so I fixed it for you) by crabmusket on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @08:36AM (#48905867)

React was open sourced in 2013. Service workers, which I consider to be essential to what we understand as PWAs, shipped first in Chrome in 2015, Safari in 2018.

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Re:Your 'App' Could Have Been a Webpage (so I fixed it for you) by jorisw on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @08:51AM (#48906055)

Sure. But Jobs was talking about running 'web apps' on iPhone OS as a software distribution channel, pre App Store, 2007-2008.

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Re:Your 'App' Could Have Been a Webpage (so I fixed it for you) by jazzypants on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @09:36AM (#48906650)

I completely understand the confusion, but "Progressive Web App" or PWA[1], coined by Alex Russell and Frances Berriman[2], has become a specific term for websites that work normally on a pc but can also take advantage of things like push notifications and be installed on the home screen of a phone. You can see a measurable uptick on Google Trends after this blogpost [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_web_app

[2] https://infrequently.org/2015/06/progressive-apps-escaping-t...

[3] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=%2Fg%2F11bzxympx6...

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Re:Your 'App' Could Have Been a Webpage (so I fixed it for you) by SquareWheel on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @01:13PM (#48910003)

If anyone wishes to remember what that looked like.

https://web.archive.org/web/20071012231544/http://www.apple....

https://web.archive.org/web/20071012025941/http://www.apple....

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