• ⚡⚡⚡@feddit.deOP
    15·
    1 year ago

    (The downvote is not from me BTW)

    I think, the main reasons to make you use the app are:

    • push notifications (they can’t do that in a web browser when the website is closed, but on your phone when the app is closed)
    • data mining (the web browser is a more restrictive sandbox than the OS of your phone)
    • background activities (even when apps are not open, they can run in the background and communicate with their servers, classic websites can’t do that)
      • ⚡⚡⚡@feddit.deOP
        3·
        1 year ago

        The Push API gives web applications the ability to receive messages pushed to them from a server, whether or not the web app is in the foreground, or even currently loaded, on a user agent. This lets developers deliver asynchronous notifications and updates to users that opt in, resulting in better engagement with timely new content.

        Seems more like a way to send a message to the running web app. What I mean are the notifications that pop up on your phone… If I close the tab, the website can’t do anything.

        The only use case of actual push notifications on “websites” I can think about: Push notifications in PWAs…