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as a web app, it can be installed on any device that has a browser. Dev doesn't also need to publish his work in app/play stores which may require extra payment
And since it doesn’t have to be published in any app stores, it can be updated much more quickly and frequently.
Why does it take so long to push updates on AppStores?
generally Google play is rather fast, but Apple can be insanely slow sometimes. At my work we've had up to 6 working days to get approval of very minor updates. That's the reason why technologies like react native with over the air updates have gotten as prominent as it has.
As someone who leads an app development team I've started liking pwas more and more the last couple of years. Especially for apps that doesn't do more complex stuff than making api calls and rendering the result to the screen in the form of text.
I think they maybe have to be approved first so that people aren't updating their apps with something malicious
So it is not as safe as downloading an app from the AppStore right?
No. The browser (which is the runtime that pwas use) is already a very limited environment with little to access to the system - and if the app wants to access something potentially sensitive, then the browser asks for permission. Even then it doesn’t have access to nearly anything that a native app can access.
That's a good question. I'm not entirely sure of the answer to that. I suppose in a way it could be less secure because the dev could just decide to one day make the wefwef.app url into a malicious link. But at the same time, I don't think a browser is granted as many permissions by default.
Using the Google Play Store as an example, there are still incredibly sketchy/suspicious apps on there even though they are approved by Google.