Comment by Michaela Merz on "I am Surma, Web Advocate and Engineer at Google. Ask me anything!"

CommentI am Surma, Web Advocate and Engineer at Google. Ask me anything!

Michaela Merz

Feb 28, 2019

What is Google's stance in regard to web-apps? Are they seriously considered to be (future?) alternatives or even replacements for native apps? Or is it more like let's wait and see? Or closer to .. let's throw those Javascript people a few bones, but web-apps will never replace native apps? A lot of strategies depend on those questions .. ?

Surma

Web Advocate. Internetrovert. Craving simplicity, finding it nowhere. Engineer @Google

Feb 28, 2019

I think you are being purposely inflammatory here. We have been working hard on bringing capabilities to the web platform, together with the other browser vendors.

I’m curious what makes you think we’d waste this amount of resources, money and time on “throwing a bone”.

Michaela Merz

Feb 28, 2019

Uh ohh .. it was NOT my intention to step on somebody's toe here. I am very sorry. 'tschuldigung.

Anyway - with the migration to Kotlin I have had developers asking themselves in which way they should continue to think. And - since some bugs (especially in regard to web-push to a dozing phone) haven't been taken care of in more than 15 months, I was just curious as to whether Google understands web-apps to be complementary to native apps or if they see web-apps to become as important and equal as/to native. Again - I don't want to sound disrespectful - I am genuinely curious in regard to Google's strategies.

Michaela

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