A few months back Firefox announced it was finally adding support for Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) after years of ignoring its own user's requests to do
There’s a lot of good reasons. Notably, web apps have better security by running within a browser container. And they run anywhere that has a standards-supporting browser. And most desirable to me, it obviates the need for Electron for many of the apps using it right now.
Oh, and most importantly for mobile, they are more privacy respecting than running e.g. the actual Facebook app.
I don’t really like the idea of stacking an OS on top of my OS tbh. Can’t we just move back to native apps?
There’s a lot of good reasons. Notably, web apps have better security by running within a browser container. And they run anywhere that has a standards-supporting browser. And most desirable to me, it obviates the need for Electron for many of the apps using it right now.
Oh, and most importantly for mobile, they are more privacy respecting than running e.g. the actual Facebook app.