Developers are going to go where the users are, and the users are going to go to the App Store. It's a self-reinforcing cycle. That and PWAs do not match the q

Developers are going to go where the users are, and the users are going to go to the App Store. It's a self-reinforcing cycle. That and PWAs do not match the quality of the experience of a native app on iPhones. It doesn't even matter why, whether it's technical or political: they just don't and users don't have to care about the why. They also don't care about apps taking up tens of MBs. Your average social media app and you average banking app is hundreds of MBs for no good reason. It's also irrelevant to users. They don't care. > from the ad-riddled App or Play store This part is also funny. It is true that in 2025 they are both ad-riddled, but compared to what? The even more ad-riddled web? Who even spends their time browsing the App Store anymore? You might go there if you're looking for a specific type of app, but most of the time people hear about new apps through word of mouth. It's not the halcyon days of 2009/2010 where new apps were constantly coming out and hitting the charts enticing people to try them. The year of PWAs will come the same year as Desktop Linux. You can use them now, today, but really it's only nerds that want to. All the theoretical advantages of PWAs are not better enough over the flow of Get > verify with Face ID > wait for it to download for approximately three seconds > Open. It's on your phone, sandboxed, and always available as long as there's not a live service element attached that you're forced to use.