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Speaking of Firefox, there was Firefox OS which appeared to be a stillborn child. It's app distribution model likely was close to PWA's. There's also Chrome OS which has lived longer than its foxy twin, and is going to be incorporated into Android according to wiki.

I think PWA is about tooling, like Google's chrome dev tools or Workbox, and frameworks. The good side of it is sharing the codebase/API between app and website. The bad side is you may bet on the stillborn/transient tech and will have to rewrite or monkey-patch everything.

And ads were never the only business model, it's developer's choice. There are apps for Android w/ decent prices and w/o annoying banners. PWA is no different.

The convergent evolution leaves nothing untouched. I think if proliferate rate of web frameworks continues to grow exponentially, we'll have to deploy docker images right into the browser. I mean, it was a joke. Was it?



I was completely distracted from your point when you mentioned the "foxy twin" of the "stillborn child". I know foxy had a double entendre here, but...uh...disturbing choice of words.


doesn't that live on as KaiOS. kai is heavily controlled by some indian company(to the point where you can't even publish apps on it's store without that company's approval) but atleast it's alive




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