Native platforms are strongly winner-take-all, so unless you're *already* winning your category, everything is about friction
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This is why paid app downloads are mostly a historical curio, too: the experience with less friction to trying a service has a massive advantage.
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At some level, this is boring. It's business-oriented and not about the tech or how it feels to use or build something. Turns out those are second-order concerns
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That's why I have hard times selling PWAs to devs, sounds like more easier to do so for business.
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Eh, there are a *lot* of mediocre business people who don't understand the implications of tech choices. Momentum is a powerful thing, and too many folks (in all roles) want to pretend they have FB's problems (e.g.)
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@owencm and I wrote up some of this: https://medium.com/dev-channel/why-are-app-install-banners-still-a-thing-18f3952d349a …1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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Yep, I saw that. I just have problems to find right arguments when it comes to a debate, because their arguments are always plain like "it's faster and feels better", and web guys always have to proof something against that. Thanks for getting into the discussion btw
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The "feel" thing is largely down to threading model. The web requires a clean main thread, whereas RN takes React's per-update work to another thread. Good for responsiveness; creates other problems.
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Folks who expect to do well on the web and don't respect their main-thread costs are always going to be in for a Bad Time (TM)
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So webdev is harder in some respects...but the trade is reach. It's a business choice.
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...and being good at web front-end is literally invaluable to businesses seeking to grow. And by "good at" I mean "builds great experiences on median devices".
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We're getting better threading primitives, FWIW. The Houdini APIs are going to transform front-end web UI.
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