Ironically it was Steve Jobs who announced No SDK web apps as primary model for app delivery in iPhone and later when he realised it could mint money; native ap

Ironically it was Steve Jobs who announced No SDK web apps as primary model for app delivery in iPhone and later when he realised it could mint money; native apps via App store became de facto. Initial set of iPhone app developers made a whole lot of money from App store, if not money they scaled their business to new heights - Whatsapp, Instagram, Snapchat etc. Since android was late to catch up in the developed economy, Apple got away with its ridiculous monopolistic practices with Appstore. But now times have changed, people care more about apps than the platform they run on e.g. Spotify. WhatsApp on KaiOS on a single device in a single country(albeit large population) made that OS a significant player in the smartphone ecosystem - a feat which even Microsoft failed to achieve; that explains the importance of apps over the platform currently. I think Apple might showcase the support for PWA in Safari as a way to defend its anti-trust litigations in the future. Although I personally want the PWA to succeed as it's the only way pure Linux smartphone ecosystem could capture market i.e. it's more important to break the smartphone duopoly than to break the app store monopoly (IMO), for security and sanity of mobile computing. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_web_application#Background https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_web_application#Ba...