> While the web platform is a bit of a mess, it actually does (or could) offer the same functionality that native apps do
I beg people making these claims to look outside their web bubble for at least a nanosecond.
> especially if Apple and Google had worked on that sort of thing over the past 15+ years rather than pushing native apps so hard.
Google couldn't care less about "as good as native". If they did, this project wouldn't have been started by devs from Microsoft (of all companies) in 2020: https://open-ui.org
> consider the savings in time and money if every company out there could just write a single PWA and not have to build two completely separate apps for iOS and Android.
Yes, you should be building native apps for each platform unless your "app" is a barely functioning text-only page.
I beg people making these claims to look outside their web bubble for at least a nanosecond.
> especially if Apple and Google had worked on that sort of thing over the past 15+ years rather than pushing native apps so hard.
Google couldn't care less about "as good as native". If they did, this project wouldn't have been started by devs from Microsoft (of all companies) in 2020: https://open-ui.org
> consider the savings in time and money if every company out there could just write a single PWA and not have to build two completely separate apps for iOS and Android.
Yes, you should be building native apps for each platform unless your "app" is a barely functioning text-only page.