3 ms·
PWA are not as good as apps - and not because of OS vendors restricting APIs. Honestly this is one of Doctorow's weakest arguments - PWA are part of the enshit
by aredox 3y ago
PWA are not as good as apps - and not because of OS vendors restricting APIs.
Honestly this is one of Doctorow's weakest arguments - PWA are part of the enshittification of tech: poor substitutes to full-fledged performant applications, that you never own, that "phone home" all the time, always dependent on someone else... I can get working binaries of old closed source software of yesteryear; I can't get working "open-source" webpages of five years ago, a maze of calls to different web ressources that the Internet Archive couldn't cache correctly, to display fully and correctly.
- tazu 3y agoAgreed, this is why I'm much more excited about the possibility of sideloading native apps.
- vitiral 3y ago> Honestly this is one of Doctorow's weakest arguments This isn't Doctorow. I went and searched, here's the article I think you're referencing https://doctorow.medium.com/web-apps-could-de-monopolize-mobile-devices-57e8a2d4bfb2 https://doctorow.medium.com/web-apps-could-de-monopolize-mob...
- radiospiel 3y agoI think they refer to https://archive.org/details/GeneralComputation https://archive.org/details/GeneralComputation