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Except Apple is making it impossible for web apps to compete with natives apps by crippling Safari with bugs and not implementing crucial features like push not
by agust 5y ago
Except Apple is making it impossible for web apps to compete with natives apps by crippling Safari with bugs and not implementing crucial features like push notifications, while banning competing browser engines who could do so. So no, currently web apps are no alternative to native apps on the iPhone.
When regulation comes in to force Apple to lift their anti-competitive practices though... Developers and companies will definitely flock to the web, for many good reasons, just like they did on desktop.
- giantrobot 5y ago> implementing crucial features like push notifications Push notifications are a fucking cancer. It's bad enough disabling them from native apps but I definitely do not want web apps sending them. For every one legitimate user of push notifications there are a hundred (conservative estimate) spam/junk users.
- Swizec 5y agoAs a consumer I much prefer most app’s web version than polluting my phone with their native stuff. The lack of notifications is actually one of the biggest reasons. Many app developers abuse notifications so much that I’d rather check uber eats tracking screen every 3 minutes than enable notifications for that app
- JumpCrisscross 5y ago> not implementing crucial features like push notifications Thank goodness. I don’t need to add de-cluttering my parents’ phones with respect to every website they’ve visited in a year to my Christmas tradition of unfucking the family’s devices. If I want notifications from a website, I’ll give them my phone number or email.