Windows 11 feels like a web app. Terrible
Don't let the rushed, incomplete web apps of yesterday scare you away from PWAs!
Yet they mostly are.
I would generally describe all of those listed above as providing a poor experience compared to even a decent native app. Maybe those aren’t what you mean, which is why I’m curious to hear which PWAs aren’t terrible.
Meanwhile, customers clearly and massively choose web apps over more traditional apps. Think of the market share of web/electron apps now: Google docs, Gmail, Slack, Figma and others.
I don’t know why hacker news seems to have this belief that native apps are better, while clearly proven wrong by facts.
The thing is that for a given budget, the development velocity of web based apps is 10x faster than native apps. I’ll get downvoted for that, but that’s the real reason why the web is winning.
I dont know how accurate this take is... I am currently explaining to our customers why we are shitcanning native iOS and UWP apps in favor of HTML5.
What device interaction is demanding everyone continue using native apps? We have no trouble with camera, barcode scanning, signature capture, etc in the browser.
You can literally mortgage a house on a webapp these days without touching a single piece of paper.
Other advantage of webapp is that it's a LOT harder for the vendor to fuck you over with OS updates. For our B2B product this is a massive deal.
I didn't say that, and quite frankly, this almost sounds like a disingenuous interpretation of my comment. As I said, I'm genuinely curious if there's some PWA standard or threshold that provides a great experience.
> while clearly proven wrong by facts.
Which facts, exactly, contradict my poor experiences with the PWAs I named? I don't see an argument in your comment, let alone facts, that make this case.