How will they capture your data silly?

It's nice to hear from Mark Murphy on this. He's a legend in the Android space.

I don't have any hope that Google analytics is dying any time soon

Many APIs Android apps can use are unavailable to PWAs. Also PWAs typically require server infrastructure to at least load once. The author of my favourite open source unit conversion calculator shouldn't need to maintain a web server so I can use their app.

But yeah, for use cases that require a server anyways and don't need elaborate mobile APIs, PWAs are probably the way to go.

If you think about it, a PWA is an electron app without the electron wrapper.

App developers need to abandon these proprietary platforms and switch to open ones like the web. That’s the only way to end this fuckery.

The "value add" for mobile apps is mainly that they enable more analytics collection without the users having the ability to control it through ad blockers. There are vanishingly few cases where the UX is superior compared to a well-implemented web app.

Basically, yeah.

in a browser that's easily blocked

But not everyone cares, unfortunately. The masses will always be exposed to this shit.

I think that was not the point. but that contrary to native apps, it is easy to block that in a webapp, if you care.