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How would this be meaningfully different from Java Web Start? Or Adobe AIR? Why would this succeed where those failed? Why should we expect this platform to be
by dangoor 9y ago
How would this be meaningfully different from Java Web Start? Or Adobe AIR? Why would this succeed where those failed?
Why should we expect this platform to be better than Android?
So many choices we make when designing systems are tradeoffs "6 of one, half-dozen of the other." One side is not necessarily "better" than the other, because different tradeoffs are made. You add up thousands of these tradeoffs and now it appears that a system is full of cruft and should be thrown away.
- MarkMc 9y agoDon't know about Adobe Air, but Java Web Start was bloated, slow, ugly, with a complicated API and poor security. Perhaps this new attempt would simply have a better implementation. Currently the most common development approach is to develop a web app, then later an iOS and Android app. So there must be a deficiency with web apps if so many companies develop a native app even when they have already developed a web app. If Android apps also ran on Windows, Mac and iOS then they would most likely dominate web apps.