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>where is WebKit's commitment to joining Google, Mozilla, Microsoft, and countless web developers in making web apps first-class apps on iOS? PWAs are a Google
by aphextron 7y ago
>where is WebKit's commitment to joining Google, Mozilla, Microsoft, and countless web developers in making web apps first-class apps on iOS?
PWAs are a Google initiative for Android phones, with Mozilla and Microsoft simply following suit to get their products into Google's platform. Apple doesn't have that problem. They have their own platform with their own goals in mind. Non-native experiences are strictly inferior to native, and they know that. With quality being Apple's primary differentiator in the market, it only makes sense that they would take an extremely measured approach here.
- SahAssar 7y agoPWA is not a google-only thing, and if apple has better ideas for the implementation they should propose those, not implement a half-baked, buggy implementation of the standard agreed by all others years ago. Native vs non-native is a red herring, there are performant webapps and slow native apps. There are accessible webapps and non-accessible native apps. If performance, accessibility or quality was the goal they would have stricter controls on their own store (as in not allowing apps that are basically "webpage-wrapped-in-webview" apps), as it is it seems that the goal is vendor lock-in and the revenue from in-app purchases.