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Is it just me that I like websites with URLs on the browser while trying to avoid Apps wherever possible, especially on the desktop? Please don’t take me the wrong way; I was the one developing apps for Pocket PC devices in the early 2000s. For instance, “Twitter” is the first featured “app” I see here at Store.App. However, when I use Twitter, I tend to click away on links and read/browse them. How are people using…

I use web apps as a cheap and simple way of making my own apps for my phone. I've also used them for making info displays on ipads (guided access on iPad can lock down the iPad to just that one app).

Recently I've made a web app for controlling my lights at home and a web app for tracking when my infant eats.

I don't tend to install anyone else's web apps though. I typically just used their website or if need be install their native app.

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Nothing that can be blamed to the (web)app store, but I found it curious the overall very poor first impression experience that these small niche (or not so small) websites tend to offer... some have the feeling of just being an excuse prototype to be a quick grab for money / user accounts. I guess that not too unlike actual installable mobile apps, to be fair. My experience has been: I tried the Linear app, but coul…

> I found it curious the overall very poor first impression experience that these small niche (or not so small) websites tend to offer Because PWA is largely just hype with nothing to show for it. We've been hearing about how they are just as good or better than native apps for years now. And yes, the only thing we get are poorly packaged barely working mobile sites.

As a Linux desktop user, web apps are very much welcome. Apps like Photopea and Adobe's new Photoshop web app are things that make the Linux desktop much more viable as a platform.
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