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PWA are the only plausible way towards a more free internet and apps, too bad people don't see it. No matter how much it benefits google, it benefits us all in
by nathias 6y ago
PWA are the only plausible way towards a more free internet and apps, too bad people don't see it. No matter how much it benefits google, it benefits us all in opening up a world beyond app stores.
- zepto 6y agoThe world is already open beyond app stores. What you are arguing for is the most closed platform the world has ever seen, completely driven by one company.
- nathias 6y agoWhat's a viable alternative then?
- zepto 6y agoSeems like there are lots of possibilities. 1. The iOS App Store is popular because of safety and privacy. Obviously that involves trusting Apple which is undesirable even if they happen to be good custodians right now. The play store is no better. If we had a decentralized solution to these problems, it would be a lot easier for other platforms to emerge. 2. It seems like we are close to the point where you could build an ‘app player’ which is based on a small subset of web technologies such as webgl, wasm, websockets, and webrtc. Implementing this could be done much more easily than supporting the giant stack required to browse the modern web, so it could be done by a genuine open coalition without a controlling corporate sponsorship as is required for a browser.
- nathias 6y agoPossibilities aren't viable alternatives, the problem is that of all existing options PWA are the best because you can escape app store and play store while providing app-like experience to users. I think google is the greatest evil of our time, but in this case we have nothing better.
- disposekinetics 6y agoYou clearly have a vision I don't, how does having a double-clickable link that opens firefox benefit me more than just opening firefox?
- nathias 6y agoYes, you have a link to click on as opposed to no link to click on.