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> some offline functionality. There's the kicker. > Calling people a troll? No, I'm saying that your prior comments are trolling. "There’s literally nothing
by smoldesu 3y ago
> some offline functionality.
There's the kicker.
> Calling people a troll?
No, I'm saying that your prior comments are trolling. "There’s literally nothing stopping someone" and "You don’t need any of that" is both untrue and a bad-faith response to the parent's post. You might as well have not commented if your intention was to defend your personal opinion about webapps.
- endisneigh 3y agoThere’s no kicker to begin with - the vast majority of apps in the app story require internet anyway, and thus the web is more than a sufficient vehicle to distribute an app. Reddit, Facebook, instagram, Spotify, YouTube, Airbnb, the list goes on. And no, I’m not trolling. Saying it does not make it so. It’s simply a fact that most apps on the App Store could be web apps. Go and look for yourself. In fact, most of the top apps already have web app versions which proves my point. Right now on my iPhone if you go to the App Store you see “essentials” which list zoom TikTok and Hulu as the top three - all three have web apps. People have brainwashed themselves sadly into thinking you need an app.
- smoldesu 3y agoYou may notice, the web version of every app you just listed is strictly inferior to the native ones. It's simply a fact that PWA and Webapp features have been sidelined for the majority of the iPhone's lifespan. Even the good webapps can't achieve feature-parity with YouTube or Spotify installed natively. > And no, I’m not trolling. It's incredibly hard to tell. Who the fuck is listening to Spotify in mobile Safari?