> So now there is a great conspiracy by both Apple and Google?
What conspiracy?
They have huge economic disincentives to further PWAs - there is no need for any conspiracy.
In the first presentation of the iPhone, Steve Jobs laid out a vision where the smartphone would run web apps, using fundamental web technologies (HTML, CSS, JS). He quickly backtracked when he realised Apple could impose a 30% tax on transactions in the platform.
> Maybe web technologies just aren’t as good as native?
No one said they are, but that's no excuse to drag your feet in implementing simple things like push notifications.
> In the history of computing there has never been a cross platform general purpose GUI framework that didn’t suck.
What GUI framework? I barely even know what we are talking about anymore. You don't need one with PWA - again, you're using fundamental web technologies, and enabling them to make system calls.
> Not to mention most Android devices in the wild are low end and don’t handle complex web pages well
So that's another excuse to not further PWAs, huh?
What conspiracy?
They have huge economic disincentives to further PWAs - there is no need for any conspiracy.
In the first presentation of the iPhone, Steve Jobs laid out a vision where the smartphone would run web apps, using fundamental web technologies (HTML, CSS, JS). He quickly backtracked when he realised Apple could impose a 30% tax on transactions in the platform.
> Maybe web technologies just aren’t as good as native?
No one said they are, but that's no excuse to drag your feet in implementing simple things like push notifications.
> In the history of computing there has never been a cross platform general purpose GUI framework that didn’t suck.
What GUI framework? I barely even know what we are talking about anymore. You don't need one with PWA - again, you're using fundamental web technologies, and enabling them to make system calls.
> Not to mention most Android devices in the wild are low end and don’t handle complex web pages well
So that's another excuse to not further PWAs, huh?