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For those more knowledgeable than me, why use something like this over making your web app into a PWA?

The installation experience for PWAs is still pretty poor. I've seen very few good examples of PWAs (probably because of this). And I've even bothered implementing a few. My conclusion after doing that: waste of time, users mostly ignore PWAs.

I thought you could publish them on app stores. What makes the installation process poor?

Most people don't know PWAs exist due to poor platform support/advertisement.

What do you mean by poor platform support?

Mozilla prism has been discontinued. Firefox first removed the feature by default and then removed it completely. IOS-add-to-home-screen always sucked.

We deserve a better SSB implementation. Stuff like 1-click-install would be dead simple if a browser would do it properly. Notifications, multiple instances, extensions and without the overhead from atom or toDesktop or whatever.

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