Just makes it easier for people who are accustomed to searching for useful things mainly on appstores. Many have no idea you can have full functionality in the form of PWAs.
As someone who hasn’t really used many PWAs in the past, I am realizing that like 90% of the apps on my phone could probably just be a PWA. Hell, most of them just seem to be wrapping a browser in an iOS app anyway.
I have known about PWAs for a while, and it always has annoyed me just how many apps I have that could be PWAs instead. I think apps can be tracked to a greater degree than websites, so, at least for closed-source stuff made by companies, native apps give more data they can use and sell.
I could have a nice icon of my choice and without browser logo under it. really. that’s the only reason. I’m simply a purist and I love to have my UI clean and the way I want it, all my icons have the same form factor and general vibe. I even might give up on wefwef if something decent will come out. And the whole mess because of dumb icon
I don’t think that makes you a purist, I think that just means you have ocd or something 😅
Everyone is entitled to their opinion but I personally think there are way more important reasons for the developers and users as to PWA or native.
I love the frequency of updates wefwef is providing us to improve the user experience by bypassing the approval process of submitting every update to the app stores. And instantly makes the app accessible to users across platforms and not limited to just iOS or android.
What difference would that really make?
Just makes it easier for people who are accustomed to searching for useful things mainly on appstores. Many have no idea you can have full functionality in the form of PWAs.
I just love that the dev is able to pump out updates pretty much daily. Getting anything reviewed on both the App Store and Play Store takes ages
yeah, wefwef is my first experience of pwas on ios and the update process is very easy.
iOS App Store is under 24 hours most of the time.
As someone who hasn’t really used many PWAs in the past, I am realizing that like 90% of the apps on my phone could probably just be a PWA. Hell, most of them just seem to be wrapping a browser in an iOS app anyway.
I have known about PWAs for a while, and it always has annoyed me just how many apps I have that could be PWAs instead. I think apps can be tracked to a greater degree than websites, so, at least for closed-source stuff made by companies, native apps give more data they can use and sell.
They’ll find some other app in the playstore then. Wefwef is awesome as it is.
yeah i have the same view. mlem comes to mind right away. lemmy is having a boom in app development.
my only wish is for wefwef to have haptic feedback support like Apollo used to have but the dev said there are some limitations because its a pwa.
Makes sense. It’s actually my first time using a PWA as well
Haptics on iOS I really miss from Apollo
I actually never used Apollo, but I think Memmy has done a great job with that.
I could have a nice icon of my choice and without browser logo under it. really. that’s the only reason. I’m simply a purist and I love to have my UI clean and the way I want it, all my icons have the same form factor and general vibe. I even might give up on wefwef if something decent will come out. And the whole mess because of dumb icon
I don’t think that makes you a purist, I think that just means you have ocd or something 😅
Everyone is entitled to their opinion but I personally think there are way more important reasons for the developers and users as to PWA or native.
I love the frequency of updates wefwef is providing us to improve the user experience by bypassing the approval process of submitting every update to the app stores. And instantly makes the app accessible to users across platforms and not limited to just iOS or android.
On Android I can just change the iconnto whatever I like, isn’t that possible on iOS?
idk, however you can’t change icon of browser shortcut. or at least I don’t know a way to do so
Well idk how it works on iOS
Afaik, you can’t change the icon on iOS, only the name. But on iOS there isn’t a browser icon, it’s exactly like a native app icon.
Than idk what his problem is, on Android I can toggle the little browser icon on/off and have full control of the icon.