Most PWAs I see are something like 10-100x smaller *by default* than their native app counterparts. And that's w/o loss of functionality.
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Put another way, PWAs and the web force you to build a _streaming_ version of your app. Native apps can't even see those limits from here.
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So native apps live in a world of negative externality: force users to be sysadmins about expensive resource on the *dev's* behalf.
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We can talk all day about how slow and bad and abusive adtech is (and oh boy do I have opinions)...but a bit of perspective is in order.
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Native apps tend to be _terrible_ citizens of constrained devices because native devs only feel size/weight as trailing adoption factor
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So the thing about PWAs "taking less space" is both statistically true to an overwhelming degree and also not guaranteed.
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It's just that it's _likely_ for reasons that most folks don't think about....because most don't think in terms of distribution & funnels.
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....all of this means that there's a _cultural_ advantage to the web's distribution model. Webdevs have the opposite struggle. Interesting.
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Webdevs need to learn to accept clients that are 1+ version old, to learn how to distribute predictive bundles and do so respectfully.
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there might be some connection/learning in continuously streaming large open world games
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: yes! Consider the app binary the "browser" in that case. In both situations you're trying to amortize fixed binary cost.
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maybe web users need to have control over when to download an update? Things like "update when on wifi" are cool
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