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		oneeyedpigeon on Dec 31, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: App Should Have Been a Website (and Probably Your ... OK, "there's nothing wrong with calling a PWA an 'app' in most contexts, unless the person listening to you is likely to try to search for the PWA in an app store".

spiderfarmer on Dec 31, 2024 [–]

Ask any random person where they would go to install an app and you'll stop belittling this problem.

jay_kyburz on Dec 31, 2024 | [–]

I don't know why you wouldn't just call them "web apps". Why the P and why the acronym.

spiderfarmer on Jan 2, 2025 | | [–]

If you define a web app as ‘an app that is actually a website’, just call it a website.

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