Yes. The web's winning feature is "it works everywhere". If your app doesn't work for the wealthiest 50% of users, why go that route? Making a desktop web app work on mobile, just for Android, is a lot of work. It needs to work on both iOS and Android to make it worthwhile.
> they all depend on full desktop browser to work (often due to sheer fact that they are complex apps that don't work well on mobile screens)
Gmail, Office, Docs - they all exist on mobile (as native apps). So it's not the complexity itself that makes it a problem on mobile screens. What does the native Gmail app do that the desktop web app doesn't?
> Android's market share is 68-70% worldwide.
Not in the wealthiest parts of the world, where the money is.
> If your app doesn't work for the wealthiest 50% of users, why go that route?
Why doesn't business hire two teams? One for the amazing native-like PWA, and one for iOS?
> Making a desktop web app work on mobile, just for Android, is a lot of work.
More work than hiring a separate Android team? More work than hiring a team to create a PWA which we've heard continuously for the past 10 years is amazingly easy and native-like?
> Gmail, Office, Docs - they all exist on mobile (as native apps). S
Yes, yes they do. As native apps
> Not in the wealthiest parts of the world, where the money is.
In 10 years you'd think we'd see actual examples of these amazing fast native-like PWAs on Android. All we hear is excuses.
Funnily enough I know of a few. E.g. Foodora's web app is surprisingly good, and it's possible that their "native" app is just running inside a webview, since it's indistibguishable from their website. But even MORE funnily enough, it takes a PWA sceptic to spot good PWA apps when none of the PWA proponents can point to a good PWA to save their life.
>> If your app doesn't work for the wealthiest 50% of users, why go that route?
> Why doesn't business hire two teams? One for the amazing native-like PWA, and one for iOS?
You quote me, but missed the exact part where I already answered that question (I presume by accident ;)), so I'll just repeat myself:
> Yes. The web's winning feature is "it works everywhere". If your app doesn't work for the wealthiest 50% of users, why go that route? Making a desktop web app work on mobile, just for Android, is a lot of work. It needs to work on both iOS and Android to make it worthwhile.
For background, this piece by Alex Russell is worth reading:
Yes. The web's winning feature is "it works everywhere". If your app doesn't work for the wealthiest 50% of users, why go that route? Making a desktop web app work on mobile, just for Android, is a lot of work. It needs to work on both iOS and Android to make it worthwhile.
> they all depend on full desktop browser to work (often due to sheer fact that they are complex apps that don't work well on mobile screens)
Gmail, Office, Docs - they all exist on mobile (as native apps). So it's not the complexity itself that makes it a problem on mobile screens. What does the native Gmail app do that the desktop web app doesn't?
> Android's market share is 68-70% worldwide.
Not in the wealthiest parts of the world, where the money is.