Providing the carrot of an icon on the home screen is the both the best and worst part of Progressive Web Apps.
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Replying to @grigs
: if by "worst" do you mean "I wish we didn't need to do this"? Or something else?
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Replying to @slightlylate
worst in that people fixate on the icon and it leads to a ton of faulty analysis and native vs. web comparisons.
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Replying to @grigs @slightlylate
early data is showing meaningful increases from PWAs on iOS which doesn’t support icons or service workers. Why is that?
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Replying to @grigs @slightlylate
It’s because the journey to a PWA is much more important than the destination. And fixation on the icon hides that truth.
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Replying to @grigs
: great points. I'm hearing *so much* lazy thinking from SV companies about web/native re: this. All fast-follow, no investigation.
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Replying to @slightlylate
It is driving me nuts. I need more time in the day to write to get countervailing arguments out that people can point to.
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Replying to @grigs
: the biggest fallacy is the selection-bias thing. People seem to assume that you'll get equal distribution for web/native.
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: ...then they base all their comparative metrics for engagement off of that. It's apples/oranges. Incomparable.
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