I am on the same page as you elycoinz.

How does one convince a community that is very much comfortable with native apps and whose confidence in it is already rock solid?

I think Yappadappadoo needs to make a lot of noise as early as now and bring to the mobile device users the great benefits of PWA by letting all of us have a taste of current popular apps in the PWA taste.

Dead right Jackbit.

PWAs are actually never considered an alternative to native apps since PWA is a class of their own.

You see, native apps are specific of their own ecosystem, if you are an android users, download the android app, if you are on iOS, you have to use the ones from appStore.

Whereas PWAs cater to both mobile OS, plus, it gives the same user experience for your regular desktop or laptop users. So PWAs are not actually confined within the mobile device sector, it caters a wide array of internet connected devices and gadgets.

The limiting factor of installability, access and use of natives apps are nowhere near the robust availability of PWAs and mind you, it only takes one development stage to produce an app that is applicable to all these gadgets.

Yappadappadoo's Whitepaper states the following:


There is sufficient amount of truthfulness as Yappadappadoo cites reasons as to why we have not seen much of PWAs that could battle Native Apps and beat them to the ground in terms of features and availability.

The lack of developers (not because no one has moved into the PWA ecosystem, but because the technology is quite new) is a major contributing factor of the limited PWAs we are seeing around.

And yes, the commercial & economic reasons behind the powerful app giants such as Apple and Google is relatively true, if one comes to think of it, as it might simply disrupt people's choice of native apps which they already have developers for.

I'm not really sure if these are disadvantages since these are just needed for the app to actually work offline and actually will make user experience better but initially, it would consume either the same or more data volume upon initial download since it would be downloading all necessary files for the offline functions. Depending on the application, it would consume data volume and possibility of consuming more storage as well.

I think there will be some problems with regards to  developing since it's something new, there might be problems with developers in implementing PWA codes and actually making the app to work, or once the app has been launched there will be new bugs. I don't think that's a disadvantage though, it's part of the process for all new technology or technological improvements.

The biggest disadvantage for me is since it's a web application, it's slightly more difficult especially for developers making it multi platform, i.e. making it work on both iOS and Android, but that has always been a problem for them. Additionally, it is still not that ready-to-market in iOS, it is seemingly quite difficult to "install" PWA so probably, only extremely interested users will try and learn about it and use it.

It is not really a weakness so to say.

But PWA needs to be recognized more. We have to remember that web apps has been around for sometime, where as PWAs has been introduced 2 years ago only. And it is easy to mistake a web app for PWA but web app lacks a lot of attributes that PWAs offer.

And as of the moment, not much of the normal consumers and app users know about the existence of PWAs.

Yes you can have everything you want from your lifestyle to work as long you use yappadappadoo apps store, but they say in WP that their apps has not needed to download, to install and to update for me this is the best feature they offer so it will not need to save apps to the memory of our phones... Maybe we can use it again and again as long as we want!?

So there is already MAPS GO that using PWA feature that can use even offline, do you think it will give the same function as in online? Because when we're using maps/navigation not just to know the exact place but also to know where is the best route and way to go from your location to your destination, and i think if you're offline or using downloaded map it can't be show the traffic situation in your area... Maybe if they can develop navigation apps that can give the traffic situation and the best route without using the internet but only gps from your phone i think it be great for all...