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Gander5739today at 12:05 PM2 repliesview on HN

The problem is, I tnink, that most people actually prefer apps over websites - even just a wrapper - for whatever reason.


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joriswtoday at 12:08 PM

Possible reasons:

- No waiting for a page to load

- Home screen access (most don't know about bookmarking web apps)

- Discovery (where do you go to find PWAs?)

- Features (native apps have access to more platform APIs)

- Absence of browser chrome (more immersive UX), though on iOS the chrome can be removed from PWAs once bookmarked, using meta tags

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ashu1461today at 12:43 PM

In most of the cases, web apps are also much slower as well and the UX is also sub par.