I was expecting someone who has used the product to help others in this discussion understand why Grab probably chose and continues to choose to develop iOS apps instead of PWAs. The answers might have taken the form:
A. PWAs weren't capable enough 12 years ago for X, Y, and Z reasons, are now, and the engineering resources to port the native app to a web app would exceed the cost of acquiring and maintaining Macs capable of running the latest macOS
B. PWAs still aren't capable for X, Y, and Z reasons
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/b...
Lotta work being done in this area.
I thought inflammation was the new bogeyman when it came to heart disease. Are we treating the wrong thing here?
The right decision would be for a news site and storefront to have platform-agnostic web sites, not applications you have to install.
And the right decision would be for phone operating system publishers to provide functionality in the included web browser to let a website act as a progressive web application. Safari for iOS has a history of lagging behind other platforms' browsers in PWA features.[1] This is particularly evident with respect to what the browser allows websites to do in the background. For example, Apple implemented Push API seven years after Mozilla did, and it requires the user to add the website to the home screen to enable PWA features.[2] Do you want Nintendo Music to pause when you switch to another application? Or if you've chosen to let Nintendo's website notify you when something becomes available, do you want to miss the notification if Safari suddenly decides that your domain's notifications shall be silent (without vibration, without sound, and at the bottom of the list)?
[1] "Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied" by Alex Russell
[2] "Push API" on Can I use...
Nintendo app appers app apps! Only LUDDITES say four is too many! APPS
But for compute, or storage, or bandwidth: on-prem will always win in cost.
With two exceptions I can think of. Correct me if I'm wrong, but as I understand it:
1. For lightweight web hosting, a low-end VPS from a company like DigitalOcean is likely to be less expensive than upgrading a home office from home-class home Internet to business-class home Internet to unblock inbound ports 80 and 443.
2. SMTP is still an old boys' club, with major mailbox providers (such as Gmail and Outlook) blocking connections on port 25 from on-premise IP addresses as likely sources of spam.
Time-sharing is the junk-mail part of the computer business. -- H.R.J. Grosch (attributed)