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All of these examples work as websites. What this says to me is that we actually don't _need_ apps.

• gfodor 6y ago
  And they only work as websites as long as Apple's Safari engine continues to let them. Did you know you can't ship a custom browser engine on iOS? Yup, another one of the rules. See why?
• shaggyfrog 6y ago
  Consider the user experience of an email app that only works when you have a network connection — so you can’t even see your mail when you’re offline. Pretty lousy.
  • searchableguy 6y ago
    You can have offline web apps. Although apple is actively sabotaging PWA standards.
• paulgb 6y ago
  Except Hey, which would need the Push API to build a reasonable PWA experience. Android and Safari desktop have it, but not iOS. https://caniuse.com/#feat=push-api https://caniuse.com/#feat=push-api
  • the_gipsy 6y ago
    Android has this feature for how many years now? I tried to look it up, I saw 13 years but that sounded like too long.