This may sound strange coming from a professional iOS developer but:

Why is this not a website is the most important question of our time.

@kp

Come live in Montana, walk outside past your wifi… and see how that works out for you.

Anything not in a flat part of town or the highway is a big ol’ “SOS” for cell coverage.

(Wyoming was the same way when I lived there)

@philsplace Web apps work offline but WebKit has always had bad support for those capabilities. When Apple finally implements them there are bad bugs that take a long time to fix: https://webventures.rejh.nl/blog/2024/history-of-safari-show-stoppers

When it comes to WebKit Apple doesn’t seem to care about privacy and security.

An Abridged History of Safari Showstoppers - Webventures

TL;DR: iOS Safari is more than an inconvenience for developers, it's the fundamental reason interoperability has been stymied...

Webventures