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> The problem with PWAs is they will never gain parity with the functionality of native development, even with WASM.

They will have as much parity as the platform manufacturer wants them to. If more people and developers adopt PWA then Apple/Google really have no option but to loosen their control over their ecosystems. Maybe then we'll finally have a third competitor in the race.

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I'm no fan of Google, but let's be honest here, they are hardly the ones holding PWAs back.

Well they still don't allow PWAs in the Play Store without bundling them as full apps and going through the regular publishing/update/approval process, which kinda defeats the point.

Seems kinda fire and forget to me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32679340

Which is weird as hell because treating PWAs as apps (from a mobile UI perspective) could be built in to the OS itself. Maybe there's some reason The Google won't do this, but OSes already treats the web as a real thing (integrated web views and such), so PWAs would seem like a next step to that.

It is built into Android. Go to twitter.com, log in and then accept the install prompt that appears. It integrates seamlessly with link sharing OS UI and jump lists.

They're pushing it as fast as they can — all web users are potentially their users, so promoting efficient use of the web is their business.

I can’t even publish useful PWAs for myself on iOS, let alone make distribution easy.

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