It's just annoying to me. Because I'm old enough to remember folks swearing "native will always be better than web"! Cause... reasons.
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Replying to @polotek
Broadly agree, though I think we’re still a ways off. FirefoxOS and WebOS demonstrated where the issues are, though.
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Replying to @ubernostrum @polotek
By which I mean, the issues are getting companies to buy into it and implement relevant standards to allow “native-feeling” web apps.
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Replying to @ubernostrum @polotek
The software is mostly there and has been for years. The standards are catching up. The hardware is close. Problem is people (as usual).
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Yeah it's easy to see in hindsight why Google was able to pull it off. They had the resources to partner with multiple OEMs and own the OS.
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If you're talking about adding PWA tech and support to Chrome, we asked for nothing from the OS. Any Android browser can do what we did.
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This point is subtle and frequently missed: Android is *far* too fragmented for us to rely on OS updates to land web features.
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Service Workers, Push, A2HS...we had to make all of it work back to unmodified KitKat; no new APIs.
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...and therein lies another unexamined outcome: PWAs are more coherent and far-reaching on Android than Android is!
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A new Android release has a diffusion rate measured in percentages/yr. Chrome updates much, much faster.
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So what you're seeing is Chrome (and my team within the larger org) investing strategically and playing a long game. Fingers crossed.
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