Building a PWA has made me more aware of some advantages native apps have. A few thoughts come to mind:
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Native apps can ship with built in relational databases. This opens up a world of capabilities that are more challenging for web. Local DBs can also better compensate for API designs.
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PWAs lack access to a number of device APIs: want to control screen brightness or prevent screenshots from a web app? You're out of luck.
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I'd love to design missing APIs you need. Keep the feature requests coming!
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