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Push notifications alone are enough to force most apps to be native. But a lot of the other stuff missing is what keeps the experience from being quite as polished as a native app.

>>bouche+(OP)
It might be interesting to go through the apps you have installed and see how many don’t work as web apps. For me it’s about 10%, basically Signal and apps which use Bluetooth to configure things and which I use almost never.

>>bouche+(OP)
> the other stuff missing is what keeps the experience from being quite as polished as a native app.

Features HN developers think are missing from the web to deliver an experience "as polished as a native app": notifications, prompt banners, link interception, Chrome-only non-standards like bluetooth etc.

Features actual users think are missing from the web to deliver an experience "as polished as a native app": actual native-like experience: responsiveness, smooth animations, polished usable and accesible controls, maintaining scroll position and location in the app, fast scrolling through large lists, no loading states for the simplest actions...

I mean, people people keep bringing up Twitter's objectively bad web app as an example of one of the best PWA apps... Have these people never seen an actual native app?