alt Hacker NewsI use PWAs on iOS and they're pretty great. That was the original plan for apps on iOS, before Apple was pressured into creating an app store.
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graemep • today at 7:21 PM
Who pressured Apple and why?
I had nor even heard of app stores before then IIRC unless you count Linux repos.
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A PWA on iOS is just a cached web page. Safari remains pretty crippled with regards to the APIs (bluetooth, usb, filesystem, etc...) that make local apps attractive in the first place. Apple is fine with letting people cache web pages, they're not fine with stuff that might displace the app store.