On: Japan to crack down on Apple and Google app store monopolies

[octacat]

Web platform is already pretty secure/privacy oriented (maybe more than the phone apps).

But web apps are impossible to install on the phones, because apple/google love and push their native apps (love their 30% cut).

oh, people would say "but what is about resources?"... - many apps are just web-view anyway.

[amadeuspagel → octacat]

Web apps are easy to install on phones[1].

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web...

[i5-2520M → octacat]

How are web apps impossible to install?

[octacat → i5-2520M]

You have to use browser on mobile to enter them (no way to add an icon for them). + there are some other limitations. There was an article about that.

Web platform is pretty capable to be used for app development, it would save a lot of developer hours to not develop for 3 platforms.

[jeroenhd → octacat]

You can definitely add an icon for them, in both Android and iOS. I'm not sure about mobile Linux, as Firefox has dropped any interest in PWAs on desktop style browsers for some reason, but the most common operating systems let you install web apps straight from the browser.

[Borgz → octacat]

This is a problem that PWAs address