I know this is a bit topical after Apple’s App Store position on ⚡️ and obviously everyone is free to pursue their own routes forward and I think it’s cool to see JB55 taking on something even more ambitious.
But for an example of the performance limits for a PWA, check out;
This is about the limits of speed and stability that can be reached for handling media with a PWA.
It has most of the PWA features allowed by iOS, notifications, push, runs in background, cache, etc, etc.
I think AliExpress is a good example of limits of PWA. But to be honest I personally as a user, don’t notice any of those limits v’s native apps. Ali Express scrolls media faster than any of my native social media apps.
Now nostr apps throw around a huge amount of data because of the way they query many relays in parallel, this is different to how the web is supposed to work.
But I do expect there to be a multitude of web services built on nostr including PWA’s. I think relays will eventually host some of this stuff for download as secondary web servers.
What is really nice here is that all routes forward can be pursued. Nobody needs permission to build on nostr, just be mindful of having proprietary stuff in your tech stack. It’s often great for near/medium growth but comes with handcuffs.