Ask HN: How to facilitate growth of open access journals?
3 by physicsgraph | 0 comments on Hacker News.
I exist outside the research community and do not publish in peer reviewed journals. I benefit when researchers publish in free open-access peer-reviewed journals. There are examples of amazing platforms [0], but as a reader I don't see how to incentivize the research community to move towards open-access journals. What leverage does a non-academic reader have? [0] https://ift.tt/3iRtuxb
Monday, September 21, 2020
New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Is it me or PWAs are pretty much dead?
Ask HN: Is it me or PWAs are pretty much dead?
8 by NosmanWert | 1 comments on Hacker News.
It does not make business sense for Apple or Google to allow them for obvious reasons. They get money from in app purchases. If every app was a PWA they would lose a lot of revenue. Even for businesses that are ad supported they are better of with native apps. You can block ads on a PWA very easily because it's a web app. With a mobile app good luck switching the ads off. Now, I get the technical advantages of a PWA but it seems to me that it has failed to take off because of the business reasons above. Is my assessment correct?
8 by NosmanWert | 1 comments on Hacker News.
It does not make business sense for Apple or Google to allow them for obvious reasons. They get money from in app purchases. If every app was a PWA they would lose a lot of revenue. Even for businesses that are ad supported they are better of with native apps. You can block ads on a PWA very easily because it's a web app. With a mobile app good luck switching the ads off. Now, I get the technical advantages of a PWA but it seems to me that it has failed to take off because of the business reasons above. Is my assessment correct?
