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Discussion on: Service Workers are coming to WebKit and Safari. Thoughts on the impact this will have?

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Ben Halpern

I still believe the platform could use some work in the manner of browser UX and discovery. I could probably write a whole post about that last sentence

Always welcome. 😊

Apple makes a lot of money from the App Store

Yes, but if they lag too far behind with the improved user experience PWAs potentially offer, it really hurts them in the long run. Apple got to its current position in the market by going for user experience in the face of potential cannibalization. That was the internal pushback about the iPad's potential to hurt MacBook sales.

I'm an iPhone user and I haven't gotten the chance to experience PWAs much and I need to change that because it's holding back my ability to think about the technology appropriately. The looming platform expansion of service workers means I really want to get up to speed with it all.