Apps were not supposed to be given a constrained execution environment that is years behind what the hardware can do
Years of internet and no real world use-case for using anything other than Lotus 123
Wanted to do something else for a laugh? We had a tool for that: It was called "Games"
"Yes please let my hardware be useless without internet access" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged

[–] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Bold of you to assume that the websites wrapped up as apps are in any way useful if you lose internet access.

[–] blame@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

Apps wrapped up as apps are useful without internet access.

[–] Vent@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Service workers are supported by every web browser and enable websites to work offline. They can even do periodic background pushes/refreshes.

My dream is that one day PWAs replace 90% of apps in existence today.

[–] blame@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Love running apps in a worse operating system running on top of my operating system

[–] Chronicon@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

depends what the app is. If its proprietary trash I'm forced to interact with because capitalism, you know I want it in firefox with ublock and as locked down as possible.

If it's something relatively trivial I use once or twice and never think about it again? Better to not have that lingering around on my device.

A good web app is leagues better than several bad native apps, but good, standards-based native apps are almost always better. I'm taking libreoffice over google docs any day, but for more obscure stuff a web-app means I can run it on any device with a browser, not just whatever single OS it was developed and maintained for.