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That's partially by design. Apple makes it a pain to make proper PWA's, and companies with websites make extremely intrusive elements to ruin the mobile website
by johnnyanmac 1y ago
That's partially by design. Apple makes it a pain to make proper PWA's, and companies with websites make extremely intrusive elements to ruin the mobile website in order drive to the app. Which is easier to monetize and harder to adblock, I imagine. Some places outright disable the mobile view for the app.
More simply, I don't need an app for every website I visit. a bookmark is much more lightweight than downloading yet another app to clutter my drawer.
- singpolyma3 1y agoI'm not apple lover, but safari support for PWAs is pretty good. What do you think is missing?
- judah 1y agoI work on PWABuilder, Microsoft's open source dev tool that packages PWAs for app stores. I can say with certainty Apple has been hostile to PWAs. Unlike Google Play and Microsoft Store, iOS App Store doesn't allow publishing PWAs. (You instead have to build a native web view app to load your PWA.) And many of the PWA features just don't work on mobile Safari.
- singpolyma3 1y agoWhich "many" features don't work?