Welcoming Progressive Web Apps to Microsoft Edge and Windows 10
Microsoft announced that Progressive Web Apps (PWA) will be added to the Microsoft Store (the “Store”). This means just like a native app (or Universal App in Microsoft Store parlance), you can build a PWA app and have that added to the Store. From a developer perspective, this is great. A PWA app in theory should be much more cross-platform than a native app. But what I find more interesting is thinking about the “why’s” a company would do something.
The big tech companies have been battling for years. When you are building your business, trying to navigate the cesspool of technologies is a challenge. You have to be careful of betting on a technology that could get dropped when it isn’t a strategic fit anymore. Remember a thing called Silverlight? As developers, we know its possible to have standards and the Web has been that shinning light. But Apple, Google, and Microsoft all have different objectives. Unfortunately, rather than evaluating a technology on its technical merits, it’s actually more important to evaluate it on the viability of its long term success. Continue reading “Progressive Web Apps and The Microsoft Store”