Brutkey

Fedi.Tips
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services

p.s. If you're wondering why you don't hear more about web apps, it's because Apple and Google hate them. Web apps totally bypass Apple and Google app stores.

Apple and Google enjoy controlling and taxing apps, but they have no control over web apps and don't get any money from them.

Apple even tried to stop web apps completely, luckily they had to back off:
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apple-backs-off-killing-web-apps

Web apps are a way of getting apps directly from the people who make them, without big tech getting in the way.

mellowfish
@mellowfish@ruby.social

@FediTips@social.growyourown.services with respect. As a software developer who has done both native and web, you don’t hear about web apps because they are a pain to build, don’t really add a lot of value, and approaching zero people ever install them. It’s a pipe dream.


Fedi.Tips
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services

@mellowfish@ruby.social

They add lots of value, for example the Mastodon and PeerTube apps have lots more features than their official apps.

So often when I'm helping people use Mastodon, I have to tell them to use the website or web app because the official app store app is missing a feature.

They also have fewer restrictions because they don't have to obey app store rules on responsibility for instance content.