Quote from the whitepaper:
They provide a perfect user-experience similar to native applications, irrespective of device type and operating system.
Perfect user experience with the platform or with all the apps in the platform? If all the apps available in the platform can give perfect user experience then this platform is amazing.
It says similar to native apps, so the performance that it would give us would be comparable to native apps that we are using today that are offline but can be used across any device and operating system.
I have seen some native apps offer a PWA release too. So far, as per my own experience, the feel and taste is not quite the same in terms of aesthetic.
Visually, i prefer the native app (perhaps because of the concept that native apps was developed with more advanced graphical capability than the limited HTML pallete).
Though both par excellently in terms of speed and responsiveness.
I told this before, and i'll say it again, i do hope to see Yappadappadoo give us an app to showcase PWAs features. Wouldn't you guys agree?