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As a user: I don’t think I’ve ever seen installing a PWA as an option. I’ve never been prompted (though I suppose some of those “use our app!” pop ups could be
by rablackburn 4y ago
As a user:
I don’t think I’ve ever seen installing a PWA as an option. I’ve never been prompted (though I suppose some of those “use our app!” pop ups could be trying to install a pwa, but I think they always take me to the App Store).
As the article mentions (on iOS) the install mechanism is to open the share menu and select “Add to home”.
I don’t open the share menu on random web apps to see if I can install them. The option may as well not exist. I also highly doubt any regular user is aware of the term “PWA”. Why haven’t PWAs killed native apps? No one knows they exist.
As a dev:
The one time I wanted to make a PWA the use case relied on being able to send notifications. The user was on iOS, safari didn’t support it. Dead in the water.
Maybe I’ll revisit it again now that support is finally here.
- 6figurelenins 4y ago> Maybe I’ll revisit it again now that support is finally here. I hadn't heard, thanks! https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-16/features/ https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-16/features/ "Web push notifications Coming in 2023." https://caniuse.com/notifications https://caniuse.com/notifications
- yen223 4y agoI have no idea how someone who isn't a web developer is supposed to know 1) what a PWA is, and 2) how to install and use a PWA. It feels like what QR codes were like 10 years ago