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Them's citin' words! Are you sure you're as well-versed as you portray yourself to be? The article which you linked to is from 2012; it pertains to the perform

Them's citin' words! Are you sure you're as well-versed as you portray yourself to be? The article which you linked to is from 2012; it pertains to the performance of Facebook's web client in 2010, when run on mobile devices in 2010. Most apps today can be implemented as progressive web apps, without any user experience penalty. Instead, they are built with tools that lock developers into a platform of one type or another. That's because some handset manufacturers prioritize the platforms that have lock-in, such as the App Store and iMessage, over the platforms that do not, such as the web and RCS. It is not because the web is somehow a bad platform for apps. If you want FaceTime to call your mom on her headset when your watch detects a spike in your heart rate, then yes, you may want to write a native app to do that. But Sudoku, Pandora and the McDonald's app can live on the web, and so can most of the rest.

KaiserPro 3y ago
> Most apps today can be implemented as progressive web apps, without any user experience penalty yeah nah, the FT, the bastion of PWAs because of the "if you have a subscription, we'll take 25% of that thanks" flipped to native almost as soon as the rules changed. why? because the user experience sucked bollocks. It was slow, memory hog, and a massive massive bollockache to maintain. Don't get me wrong, thats not because they were bad at making the web app, its because the tech isn't up to scratch.
- rezmason 3y ago
  Are you talking about this? https://enterprise.ft.com/en-gb/blog/ft-app-now-available-ios/ https://enterprise.ft.com/en-gb/blog/ft-app-now-available-io... This says they just wrapped their web app in a native app, like a web view, so they could then use system features that their web apps couldn't access. So are you sure you're not using a web app after all? You might be using the same tech as you were before.

KaiserPro 3y ago

> Most apps today can be implemented as progressive web apps, without any user experience penalty yeah nah, the FT, the bastion of PWAs because of the "if you have a subscription, we'll take 25% of that thanks" flipped to native almost as soon as the rules changed. why? because the user experience sucked bollocks. It was slow, memory hog, and a massive massive bollockache to maintain. Don't get me wrong, thats not because they were bad at making the web app, its because the tech isn't up to scratch.

rezmason 3y ago
Are you talking about this? https://enterprise.ft.com/en-gb/blog/ft-app-now-available-ios/ https://enterprise.ft.com/en-gb/blog/ft-app-now-available-io... This says they just wrapped their web app in a native app, like a web view, so they could then use system features that their web apps couldn't access. So are you sure you're not using a web app after all? You might be using the same tech as you were before.