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Yes, Apple is good at keeping their web stack good enough for "regular" web browsing but not feature full enough to compete with their native toolkits. And of c

• JumpCrisscross 8y ago
  Isn’t there a security argument for limiting native APIs to apps from the App Store?
  • kyriakos 8y ago
    True but for web apps you use the same way to give permissions to use your device sensors you would use for a native app. The only difference is that it doesn't pass through the app store review process and apple gets no cut for it.
    • JumpCrisscross 8y ago
      > for web apps you use the same way to give permissions to use your device sensors you would use for a native app Which would mean any malicious site a user got tricked into visiting can access the native API. (Downloading an app is more deliberate than visiting a site and instinctively clicking to make the pop-up go away.) All I'm saying is there are non-financial reasons why an OS designer might sandbox websites from the native API.
• cft 8y ago
  That will be irrelevant in 7 years (time horizon in the article) since Apples's device share will continue to dwindle relative to Android. It will be the same as the historical OSX/Windows ratio. They already signaled that by focusing on pushing up the price per phone versus the number of phones as their stock price driver.
  • Terretta 8y ago
    Arguing “market share” as a headcount instead of, say, disposable income share or % of mobile spend, is like arguing the 1% is irrelevant because they’re only 1 in 100.