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The biggest one for me is that customers understand Apps. ie, if you have an App on the App Store, there's no explaining to do to the end user. Everybody with
by jmkni 3y ago
The biggest one for me is that customers understand Apps.
ie, if you have an App on the App Store, there's no explaining to do to the end user. Everybody with a smartphone has installed an app at some point in the past decade, they get it.
Once you move away from that and are having to explain to the user what a PWA is, that it's really the same as an App, just pin it to your home screen, etc etc, you just lose people.
- amadeuspagel 3y agoMaybe you don't need to explain it that way? Maybe it's enough to say: It's a website, you can pin it to your homescreen, it will open in fullscreen mode ...
- JohnFen 3y agoBut saying "it's a website" implies that you need internet connectivity to use it. That's not necessarily a requirement for PWAs.
- em-bee 3y agothe mental step that is missing is that we can build "websites" that don't need internet connectivity. this is not a new feature, and not a mobile specific one either. somehow we need to promote the concept of offline websites. or of downloadable webapps. "click here to install this application on your desktop. it will then work offline just like any other application"
- rezonant 3y agoThough a website in the browser can be offline, maybe the simplest call to action would be "Use MySite offline by adding it to your home screen"
- andoando 3y agoTrue for pwa but Capacitor is just an app on the App Store.