What’s Wrong with Mobile Apps Anyway
summary
Argues that long-standing objections to mobile web apps are outdated: phones are ~480× faster than the original iPhone so many past performance problems disappear; modern web APIs expose camera, accelerometer and more; service workers enable offline behavior and a PWA can feel installed; Android now accepts PWAs via Trusted Web Activity (Play Store) while iOS still lacks key features like push notifications; demonstrates practical paths (PWA, Cordova/Capacitor wrap, React Native) and reports production apps that work.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 5:30Mobile Web: The Good Parts
- 10:10Firefox's HTML Renderer
- 10:58Mobile Web: The Bad Parts
- 17:31Progressive Web Apps
- 23:18React Native
- 26:24The Case for Mobile Web Apps
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