| ▲ | gabesullice 4 days ago | |
Offline is good for things like your ball sort game or a calculator. But the developers of that sort of thing want to make money, so they sell apps in the app store. Offline order history is only a marginal improvement on the e-commerce experience from a customer and business perspective, so it's more appealing to us engineers who appreciate it as a feat of engineering prowess. In other words, offline isn't PWAs killer feature. Besides, native apps can do it too. PWA's killer features are circumventing the app store and the app store tax and not maintaining two codebases for Android and iOS. Another Hacker News client would be a good example of a good PWA that you might install to your phone. It could have niceties like "save for later" or special styles applied to your favorite commenters. Offline support would be useful too, of course but not the main reason to develop a PWA. Uncensored, paid content is another significant use case. | ||
| ▲ | np1810 4 days ago | parent [-] | |
> PWA's killer features are circumventing the app store and the app store tax and not maintaining two codebases for Android and iOS. Agreed, I wish we lived in world where PWAs had atleast an equal share compared to mobile apps. Apps winning, mostly have been a suicide for privacy. Coincidentally, there's another HN story with even more relevance to our discussion. [1] | ||