If you think about it, a PWA is an electron app without the electron wrapper.
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BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks agoIt sucks that that’s the best option, but if we’ve made it to that point I personally would rather just use the website without extra steps.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
tfm@piefed.europe.pub 3 weeks ago
Most information based apps don't need to be natively integrated. Take the Voyager client for example. It behaves almost exactly like the native version of the app.
Most users wouldn't even notice a difference, if well implemented.
App developers need to abandon these proprietary platforms and switch to open ones like the web. That's the only way to end this fuckery.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Voyager is a fantastic example. I forget that it is a PWA all the time.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Voyager is a web site???
tfm@piefed.europe.pub 2 weeks ago
Basically, yeah.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
The “value add” for mobile apps is mainly that they enable more analytics collection without the users having the ability to control it through ad blockers. There are vanishingly few cases where the UX is superior compared to a well-implemented web app.