I have an app for programming my chicken coop. My 401k company just created an app for onboarding new participants.

These should have been mobile friendly webpages.

  • Chozo@kbin.social
    81·
    1 year ago

    Because not everybody likes the stock interface of Lemmy. Same thing with Reddit, and why people chose to use third-party apps there, as well. Web apps aren’t always designed in the most intuitive ways for every user, and sometimes a native app can fill those UI/UX gaps, or add features that aren’t possible through a PWA.

    • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
      1·
      1 year ago

      There are a few different web apps for accessing Lemmy.

      I’m not sure what browsers can’t do these days in terms of social media. With Web Bluetooth and everything from accelerometers to proximity sensors being exposed to web applications I’m also having a hard time imagining what features web apps lack for most use cases.

      I hate working with Javascript and the performance of many Javascript frameworks is absolutely terrible, but a well constructed web app can more than make up for native apps these days.

      Voyager is a pretty good Lemmy client, even better than Jerboa in my opinion, especially after installing it.

    • Another Catgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      11·
      1 year ago

      why PWA and not a plain web app? I think the only difference is that PWAs can ve turned into a pinned pop-up window (that acts a bit like an electron app) when using a chromium-based browser.

      • Chozo@kbin.social
        31·
        1 year ago

        Even then, there’s a lot of feature you end up missing out on. Even just basic navigation has to be done via the browser’s default navigation options. Even simple things like long-pressing something on the page will typically only give you access to your browser’s long-press menu (though that’s not always the case, in my experience very few web apps handle this effectively).

        Personally, I prefer the experience of a native app. But I get why it’s not appealing to all people.