Did PWA's take off? What are some famous/big PWA's now? I can't remember ever "installing" anything in a browser as an app, or even being asked if I wanted to do it. Am I misunderstanding what they are?
I was developing a feed reader that was supposed to be a client-side-only PWA but that's tricky.
Which is one of the reasons I like PWAs, they are ISA independent and are working pretty well here. Unfortunately Firefox doesn't support an add to homescreen feature on the desktop, so I used Edge to do it for the apps I want to have a nice icon for (such as spotify).
If you're going to use it much like a chromebook then it might be a tad too expensive to be justifiable. I don't regret buying mine at all, I really like it, but I'm sure they'll release cheaper ARM64 Surfaces soon, I'm betting on a Surface Go with ARM64 at some point.
The problem is that developers have to spend a significant amount of time and money to get on iPhones because of Apple's policy here. If browsers and devices fully supported PWAs developers could "write once, run everywhere". Instead we have to build separate apps and deal with separate release processes. It's a huge productivity cost.
Apple isn't obligated to implement every single "this is now cool on web"-thing on it's platform to satisfy small niche of people who will find value in them.
Apple definitely makes it difficult to use them effectively. For example you need to use Safari on iOS in order to download the PWA - it won't work if you're on chrome or another third party browser.
Twitter, Instagram, Starbucks, Pinterest and more have PWAs as well.
Edit: the official help page on how to do Find&Replace reads like a joke until you realize it is very real:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/find-and-replace-...