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>>samwil+(OP)
,,In addition, Apple has been underfunding Safari for the past decade leading to missing critical functionality and a buggy experience for Web App developers thus ensuring that Native Apps, another Apple revenue source, are the only viable solution.''

It's not just funding. Apple changed webapps to delete indexedDB periodically even if they are inatalled on the home screen.

There's no way to have a great experience if you can't store data permanently.

>>xiphia+of
Why should a browser app be allowed to store data permanently? I think that breaks normal ideas about how browser apps work, except for cookies everything is stored server side.

>>msh+jg
Some users would like to, for example, dismiss the beg banner on Wikipedia and have it stay gone.

How to balance that desire with advertisers' desire to track users is of course a difficult question.