2 years ago

Category: Microsoft, android, ios, apple

Earlier this month the PWA Summit was broadcast as a single-day online event. Aderinokun made the case that PWAs are ready to be considered as a viable alternative to native apps, in terms of their capabilities, reliability, and installability. As I explained in a column back in January, the term PWA was coined by Google in 2015 to describe an enhanced web application that can run on modern web browsers.

As Aderinokun explained, it took several years for the capabilities of browsers to catch up to the dream of PWAs.

The biggest issue PWAs have currently, as Aderinokun noted in her conclusion, is that feature parity for PWAs is markedly different between iOS and all other platforms.