even worse - if you need to build some app with entitlements or some features likes push notifications etc then you need non-free account
replyI would like to mention that although I’m aware of the limitations, I think it is worth designing and advocating for web app standards that could even at some point become a viable competitor to native apps, especially for apps that really don’t need to be native/wrapped apps in the first place since most are CRUDs anyways.
replyMaybe this will be a catalyst towards further evolution of the web app as Android devs want to carve out some freedom from the world domination corporate shadow government walled gardens.
You're not wrong, but it will always be the case that the web platform lags native. There will always be stuff you can't do without a native client. The proportion of apps that it's viable to run as a PWA will probably increase over time, but the platforms have both the ability and incentive to stay out ahead.
replyMost apps can be a PWA nowadays. A Hetzner VPS costs roughly the same as the Apple dev membership. Saying this as a native iOS dev since iOS 4. For your average pretty json printer you don’t need to go native.
replyOffline PWA sites are very limited on iOS. If you force close Safari, look at your phone funny, or don’t visit the site regularly, the cache is cleared and you are stuck at a loading screen until you have internet again.
replyThat’s what forced me to finally bite the bullet and pay Apple yearly so I could develop an app for my friends and I to use. Would have much rather kept it as a PWA.
Yeah they can’t make it too easy to bypass the App Store :( I don’t think that’s a super strong argument though. Native apps have downsides as well.
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replyEvery 7 days, forever?
replyAt some point you have the thing working to your satisfaction and just want to continue using it.
Hell, maybe you just want it to not break during a long vacation.
replyOr maybe everything is normal, but, oops, you forgot the last renewal and it stops working exactly the moment you needed it most.
Heck, even "tinkerers" might want it to keep working during a long vacation.
replyOr maybe it's a normal day, and, oops, you forgot the last manual renewal, and now it's busted at exactly the moment you needed it most.
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replyGoing on vacation and want to continue dogfooding?
replyIt happens. Sometimes you're done making updates to a personal app you use that you wrote.
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