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Its crazy isn't it. First we had desktop applications, then webpages that try to be desktop apps, now websites are changing their very definition to being deskt
by laythea 9y ago
Its crazy isn't it. First we had desktop applications, then webpages that try to be desktop apps, now websites are changing their very definition to being desktop applications (using the browser as a framework).
It's similar with the UI. First flat, then 3D, now back to flat. Its crazy.
- bastawhiz 9y agoIn truth, _all_ iOS apps were web apps in the beginning. Steve Jobs wanted all apps to be based on HTML5, but developer pushback forced Apple to change its mind. iOS didn't get native apps until almost a year after the iPhone was announced.
- alwillis 9y agoiOS didn't get native apps until almost a year after the iPhone was announced. Obviously the apps Apple shipped on the original iPhone were native apps. Even before the official App Store was announced, developers reversed engineered their way to native apps. It wasn’t a good look for Apple: it could create native apps but 3rd party developers couldn’t, especially game developers. HTML5 wasn’t nearly as capable 10+ years ago as it is today and developers let it be known that wasn’t tenable. Apparently allowing 3rd party native apps was the right thing to do.