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Re: I built a progressive web app and published it in three app stores

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Post by Silhouette » Thu, Apr 19, 2018, 12:18 AM UTC

judah wrote: post #406

Silhouette wrote: post #104

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Unfortunately, the status quo today is, that's where the users are. I've seen a few people make this argument, but no real data. Does anyone have any relevant stats about web vs. app store sales, perhaps the ratios between customer numbers and/or revenues through different channels, that they'd be willing to share?

The number of registered users per day has tripled since I added my app to all 3 app stores. Most of the registrations come from Android.

Interesting, thanks. Would you mind sharing whether your revenues changed by about the same factor?

Re: I built a progressive web app and published it in three app stores

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Post by mankash666 » Sat, Apr 21, 2018, 10:41 PM UTC

rbrtl wrote: post #404

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But 99.9999% of app store rejections aren't malware related. It's a scapegoat reason of convenience, but not the real reason, v.i.z. Apple's insatiable monopolistic ambition of totalitarianism, of cock-blocking freedom on their devices.

Source please? If your vitriolic rant has any substance, please present it. Otherwise you just come off as a cock-sure, know nothing asshole.

Ironic that you accuse someone of being a cock-sure know nothing asshole without a shred of evidence that app store rejections are somehow malware-deterrence driven.

Unless your vitriolic rant arises from some jingoistic fervor for Apple, and it bat-blinds you to Apple's totalitarian rules of engagement, the evidence is really, really apparent!!

Or maybe you really enjoy the Stockholm syndrome of Apple telling you want apps you can and cannot run on your iPhone. And you really crave for your Mac to get locked down in a similar fashion, in some sadomasochistic homage to your tormentor. But hey, whatever floats your boat.

Cheers

Re: I built a progressive web app and published it in three app stores

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Post by yoz-y » Wed, Apr 25, 2018, 7:31 AM UTC

kalleboo wrote: post #384

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This could be as easy as: 1. Open control center. 2. Control music from there. 3. There is no step 3.

You hit pause, 5 minutes later the webpage starts playing again. So now we need to add a "block webpage" button to control center?

The only way I think this could be done is to only allow autoplay for webpages that have been added to the homescreen. Allowing background play for tabs in Safari would be insane and I hope that will not happen.

Re: I built a progressive web app and published it in three app stores

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Post by yoz-y » Wed, Apr 25, 2018, 7:32 AM UTC

wpietri wrote: post #148

judah wrote: post #2

Author here. Thanks all for bringing this to the HN front page. The jist of the article is getting a PWA into the app stores is harder than it needs to be, especially on iOS. Between Google, Apple, and Microsoft, I found Google's Play Store to be the simplest and quickest store to get a PWA published in. Another interesting bit is that web technologies haven't caught up to native. My PWA isn't super complex -- it's a…

Those who are skeptical should try out Twitter Lite, the PWA version of Twitter. Developer blog here: https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/open-sourc... I've been using it on Android for a while. It's not perfect, but it's definitely good enough. There are still plenty of apps where I'd tell a CEO, "No, we really need three sets of client developers," but the number is certainly dropping over time.

I tried it just now. When I put my phone into airplane mode it just shows "Twitter is taking too long to load", I do have iOS 11.3 so service workers should handle this.

Re: I built a progressive web app and published it in three app stores

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Post by scardine » Wed, Apr 25, 2018, 9:32 PM UTC

altfredd wrote: post #126

scardine wrote: post #21

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> I'm OK with that. Web apps are clunkier and provide a worse experience. That Google makes this easier speaks to the sort of UX you get with Android. Chicken and eggs argument here: web apps are clunkier and provide a worse experience because they are not well supported by the OS or the OS does not provide better support for web apps because they provide a worse experience? Hybrid app frameworks exist because phone…

> web apps are clunkier and provide a worse experience because they are not well supported by the OS No, they are clunkier and provide a worse experience, because most "web apps" are ported version of desktop bloatware, targeting devices, permanently plugged into wall-mounted electric outlet. What are "web applications" anyway? Something, that requires permanent internet connectivity? Something with DOM APIs? Somethi…

I will not debate whether "web apps" are ported version of desktop bloatware but I don't see why you can't write offline-first, mobile-first progressive web applications using Javascript and HTML (except Apple's lack of enthusiasm supporting anything outside their walled garden)