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Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun (www.theatlantic.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Twitter had some great outcomes when they rolled out their PWA: https://web.dev/case-studies/twitter

Twitter Lite is now the fastest, least expensive, and most reliable way to use Twitter. The web app rivals the performance of our native apps but requires less than 3% of the device storage space compared to Twitter for Android.

65% increase in pages per session
75% increase in Tweets sent
20% decrease in bounce rate

yet they kept pushing their native apps, probably because they can collect more data through them. The web is way more sandboxed than regular apps.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

That's less an endorsement of PWAs and more a condemnation of how garbage the native app always was.