Add to Home was on iOS for 8 years and it was never a big deal with the icon really sharing space with apps
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Replying to @firt
: no prompting and no guarantee that resulting icon would meet implicit app contract
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Replying to @slightlylate @triblondon
The prompting was solved by things like http://cubiq.org/add-to-home-screen …. Apple gave up on this things time ago anyway.
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Replying to @firt
: again, that prompting was no indication of quality, only that the site wanted to be spammy
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Replying to @slightlylate @triblondon
Not sure about that; I don’t see any difference on being “spammy” with an iOS ATH banner and a Web App Banner.
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Replying to @slightlylate @firt
: specifically, you've missed that PWA prompting requires user engagement hurdle to avoid the web experience devolving.
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: and we may tighten the criteria over time. E.g., super slow sites don't belong on my home screen.
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and then at the same time, tell me that I can’t be responsible of asking for a banner when I want to…
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Replying to @firt @slightlylate
you can't. that's the point. I (mostly) agree with Alex on this - developers don't have the right incentives here
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: ...and we have a web's worth of proof.
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