The mobile market has a clear preference for apps over webapps.

I love webapps and they have a lot of positives but few devs stop and reflect on what the market is conveying.

I noted a few weeks ago:

PWAs are an effective way of distributing applications permissionlessly, especially on iOS, but there's a few drawbacks:

- Hard to install: the fact that you have multiple steps that need explanation (go to the hamburger menu, tap on install, but on iOS use Share...). As insignificant as this sounds, it's a major UX hurdle for users and why I think PWAs are not more widespread. Apple and Google know this very well.

- Harder to discover: though not needing an app store is an upside, it hurts discoverability, especially on app stores with a social layer like Zapstore

- Reliance on domain names: Not a huge problem but definitely not as sovereign as private keys

- Hard to verify releases: since you pull data and UI from a website, it's unclear when you have upgraded, impractical to sign and next to impossible to audit a particular release. Websites typically perform lots of deployments every day