If we had more PWAs, it wouldn't be that big of a deal, honestly.
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Agreed, good luck getting big tech to make more PWAs though.
The Discord and Slack desktop apps are essentially PWAs with extras. If more developers make their apps in react native or flutter instead of native languages (swift for ios, java/kotlin for android) it would be much easier to have parity across all platforms painlessly
Yeah
Mozilla tried an HTML-based application OS for a mobile phone but canceled this project.
Wasn't it pretty late though? Also web technology has advanced greatly since 2013
I agree.
And sadly it was an utter failure.
Surely it costs a billion dollars to produce a competitive handset?
I think people would buy a wifi enabled touchscreen pocket device that super simple was good with PWA, but had no sim, no 4/5G antenna or any of the expensive cpu/RAM that a modern phone has.
Why aim for a phone when an open source iPod touch is all that’s require?
Use your phone as a hotspot, and have a 5.5inch open source device for doing fun open source stuff.
Ubuntu phone was crowd funded, and it got quite a long way
Mark Shuttleworth could have funded it, but he said he thought it was against the spirit, which is fair enough
Linux on microsoft surface I hear works well
People are working on solutions, but they are largely niche
Give me a terminal, and I'm happy
I had one. Bit clunky and slow with limited app selection
I also had an ubuntu phone which I really liked, but they never managed to get convergence to production levels, almost tho
Right now I have a degoogled e foundation phone, which is a better UX
Mainly use a regular android phone tho with termux and ssh into it
Gonna run a nostr relay locally, and connect it to my client, so that I'll get global feed, plus local
If only apple would provide better support for them
Because they aren't allowed on app store right?
well, we don't need them in the app store, but we should be able to install them from our browsers and access them as if they are native apps