As a big fan of the web, I still fail to get what significant advantage PWAs are supposed to have. Still seems like a completely unnecessary marketing effort to me. Am I missing something?

Oct 22, 2020 · 5:33 PM UTC

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Replying to @stilkov @simas_ch
From User or Developer perspective?
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Both, but mostly for users, after all developers don’t really matter
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Replying to @stilkov
It is an advantage over having to build a fully native app for lightweight native function. The customer advantage is not needing to go via the app store.
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No need to convince me of the benefits over native apps. I’m more concerned about the advantages over a plain web app
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Replying to @stilkov
No 30% cut in app stores.
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I’m not disputing the benefits of web apps over native apps, but the benefits of PWAs over plain web apps
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Replying to @stilkov
Respectfully, yes. #PWAs give you the app experience using standards-based tech rather than proprietary languages and walled-garden app stores. #PWAs give you a rich offline/airplane-mode experience #PWAs are better for low-end devices and bandwidth pwastats.com
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But Scott, I don’t actually *want* an “app experience “. Why would I? Offline may be useful, but most of the time an unconnected PWA is largely useless
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Replying to @stilkov
Couple of good examples progressivewebapproom.com/
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squoosh.app is a nice pwa example. No need to install random shareware for something that works in your browser.
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