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>Native apps will be replaced by web apps on mobile, just like they were on desktop. Google and apple make a fortune from their app stores. They have a huge in
by Houshalter 9y ago
>Native apps will be replaced by web apps on mobile, just like they were on desktop.
Google and apple make a fortune from their app stores. They have a huge incentive to stop this from happening, and the means to do it by restricting the mobile browser. Can you really sell a mobile app today anywhere near as effectively as a native app?
The only reason this works on desktop at all is because IE eventually lost it's monopoly. And only because Google ran what would have been one of the most expensive advertising campaigns in history to get chrome out there. And Microsoft never even had a successful app store to defend.
- dragonwriter 9y ago> Google and apple make a fortune from their app stores Google has a web app store already, and makes vastly more money from web ads (including search, where most people would find non-store web apps) than it's app stores, anyway. I suspect that busting Apple's app store in favor of web apps would be a bigger win for Google than losing Play Store would be a loss.