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> If it is valuable, maybe browser is not the best medium for it.

Progressive web apps are not "the browser". It's a platform to ship apps using web technology that integrate into the operating system pretty like any other app, at least from the user's perspective. It works well enough on Android.

If you have to explain to your users all the caveats that such an app has on their platform, it just becomes pointless. If it becomes pointless on iOS, then it becomes pointless in general. You might as well go with a Web View app then.

Of course Apple has never been all that enthusiastic about PWAs, giving half-assed support at best. It was never a great platform to begin with, but now it's effectively dead in the water, at least for apps that are expected to work offline.



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