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> Now that smartphones have so much extra processing and memory capacity. Not saying that PWAs are necessarily less efficient, but this isn’t a good reason for
by tomduncalf 9y ago
> Now that smartphones have so much extra processing and memory capacity.
Not saying that PWAs are necessarily less efficient, but this isn’t a good reason for doing anything on mobile as more power usage = shorter battery life, which is still one of the main issues with today’s smartphones
- staunch 9y agoEngineering is largely about making trade offs. Battery life is just one (very important) variable for smartphones. PWAs are generally going to be less efficient than native apps because they're just web apps running in Safari. This performance penalty explains why PWAs couldn't replace native apps in the past. It would have hurt the user experience. But now that smartphones are so much more powerful, we should be able to take advantage of PWAs.
- JustSomeNobody 9y agoI think it would be awesome to see a version of, say, iOS 3 compiled to run on modern iPhone HW and see how long the battery life would be.
- kridsdale1 9y agoThat would take a ton of work to make it all 64bit safe again. Basically redoing iOS 7.