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Not really chrome -- it didn't exist yet when this started to happen. But web applications in general. And the whole Web 2.0 movement. As people spent more time
by sdm 9y ago
Not really chrome -- it didn't exist yet when this started to happen. But web applications in general. And the whole Web 2.0 movement. As people spent more time in browsers and those browsers became more standards compliant it weakened MS' dominance and let others, like OS X, start to compete. As developers, especially for in house applications, saw it was much cheaper to publish to a common platform rather than have to worry about local installs they changed where they were spending money. The browser effectively killed MS' complete dominance.
- acqq 9y agoInitially, with Jobs, there were no apps for iPhone, the web was to be a medium.
- pfranz 9y agoI'm confused (and have never really heard this theory). Is there anything to support this from Apple or Jobs? Plan A (at least publicly) was that web apps were the only apps on the iPhone. Were these rules and the App Store a reaction to that or would have Apple kept web apps crippled in Safari?
- tsunamifury 9y agoInitially Jobs was against all apps, and wanted just mildly useful webapps running in their crippled JavaScript engine. Then they allowed apps but with many UX restrictions like no drawing UI outside the view etc. Nothing that could infringe on the core interaction models of iOS.
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