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Jason Leung πŸ§—β€β™‚οΈπŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» • Edited

Thanks for the article, David! As a web developer, I wish PWA has more supports but right now sadly, I am not actively putting effort into it nor do I use any of it currently. (I mean those added to home screen PWA)

I think part of the reason is that Apple hindering its development, even though I recall Steve Job is one of the earliest to introduce the concept of PWA. You can tell from how they deliberately put the "Add to Home Screen" button under the visible area of the share sheet. (Not blaming Apple, they have their concerns.)

There are many implementation details in developing PWA, including offline support, notification, versioning, etc. But if half or more than half of your users are not able to use those features, or if you have to educate your users to install an app in a specific way while you are uncertain how it may go away in the future, you are less motivated to learn and develop it or convince a client to do so.

To be honest, as a user, I don't find many PWAs that I like to use. There are certainly some good PWAs out there, incl DEV, Twitter, Instagram. m.uber is an impressive one that are created for the low-ended market. But to keep up with the latest features, I tend to switch back to native apps.

I am also curious about the future of PWA, especially when the native app market is saturating. Maybe PWA will grow into more of a concept than a certain type of apps. Anyway, I'd always bet on web tech. Let's see the poll result on June 2021. 😎

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David Dal Busco

I think you highlight something really important about "educating the users". When I ran my test I was amazed by the Firefox UX because I really felt it went smoothly and to some extension, I should have not be. It would be so nice if it would works seamlessly but as long as it is not the case, it might be difficult for a wide audience to get into it.

Let's see next years poll results, finger crossed to a larger adoption 😁.

Thank you for your comment and read!