Mobile platform vendors, like Apple, are totally cool with apps that use your phone to its fullest. Which brings me to the 2nd reason: web app restrictions by Apple hostile mobile platforms. Real web apps only kinda-sorta work on mobile. My response to my users has up until now been, “Aww, you don’t need an app - just go to the website on your phone! It works!” They ask that because we’ve trained users to look for apps in proprietary app stores. User demand: My users have been asking me for years, “Is there an app for Chavah? I don’t see it in the store.” Web app restrictions by Apple hostile mobile platforms.We’ve trained a generation of users to find apps in proprietary app stores, not on the free and open web.įor my web app, there were 2 big reasons to get in the app store: The answer, in a nutshell, is because that’s where the users are.

Why?įirst, you might wonder, “Why even put your app in the app stores? Just live on the opened web!” The process was both painful and enlightening. I recently published Chavah Messianic Radio, a Pandora-like music player, as a Progressive Web App and submitted it to the 3 app stores (Google Play, iOS App Store, Windows Store). One month of work, several hundred dollars, and lots of red tape. By JudahGabriel Himango I built a Progressive Web App and published it in 3 app stores.

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