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If I do something once then it's slightly annoying downloading the app from the app store, but I can live with it. It's not worse than opening browser and going to some URL.

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The United web site experience is the biggest tire-fire I have ever seen from a F500 company. They literally ask you to use your credentials on multiple different domains, and every menu item seems to take you to a different domain where you are of course logged out.

United is a phisher’s dream target. No MFA possible, and they spam their customers with zillions of login links on dozens of different domains. I’ll bet you can register unitedcardawards.com and get thousands of credentials without even sending out phishing messages!

Android at least has the ability to "install" a PWA as an app on your home screen. They just need to allow devs to list them on their app store, and then it really wouldn't be any more inconvenient than a native app.

I didn't say that it was more inconvenient than installing a native app, but it's not more convenient either. I don't see any reason to switch to these PWAs when native apps are usually guaranteed to have better UX, features, Apple Pay, Face ID support etc.

iOS has this too (Share button -> Add to Home Screen) but I don’t know if it’s as easy as Android.

That is TWAs are for.

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