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I've read so many positive sides on using Progressive Web Apps. Let's have now disadvantages of using it? Do native apps have capabilities that PWAs doesn't have? If a user switch on using PWAs rather than native apps, does PWA can be a native app like with notifications, badges, led indicator?

In my understanding in PWA it is ready to use, it can work in apps and in any android phone too. Also can operate smartphones and tablets with the same look and feel like

as native apps in accordance to their WP and its allows to use camera, microphone and messaging too, this what I knew about it.

I'm not really sure if these are disadvantages since these are just needed for the app to actually work offline and actually will make user experience better but initially, it would consume either the same or more data volume upon initial download since it would be downloading all necessary files for the offline functions. Depending on the application, it would consume data volume and possibility of consuming more storage as well.

PWA is innovation, it's improvement in the existing technology. There's no disadvantage to the end user really since the apps will just be the same, but you could also use them offline now.

I think there will be some problems with regards to developing since it's something new, there might be problems with developers in implementing PWA codes and actually making the app to work, or once the app has been launched there will be new bugs. I don't think that's a disadvantage though, it's part of the process for all new technology or technological improvements.

It will be difficult to develop an high quality user experience that could rival native apps especially for development teams with less skill. It would be a disadvantageous for the developers than to the end users, ditto.

The biggest disadvantage for me is since it's a web application, it's slightly more difficult especially for developers making it multi platform, i.e. making it work on both iOS and Android, but that has always been a problem for them. Additionally, it is still not that ready-to-market in iOS, it is seemingly quite difficult to "install" PWA so probably, only extremely interested users will try and learn about it and use it.