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I don't know if Apple care; they have enough money not to; but this is the reason I don't, and won't develop for iOS. Responsive webapps - go for it. Native c
by esotericn 7y ago
I don't know if Apple care; they have enough money not to; but this is the reason I don't, and won't develop for iOS.
Responsive webapps - go for it.
Native code? You're building on someone else's land.
Like, there are endless justifications people come out with, I guess it's because they really want to develop on iOS specifically, or just want money (and there's a lot of it out there), but at the end of the day, it's all gone in a heartbeat and there's literally nothing you can do about it.
I can't even fathom how I'd feel in the author's situation, and not starting sidesteps the issue entirely.
- rimliu 7y agoAlas, more and more web is building on Chrome land.
- mark_l_watson 7y agoI certainly agree with you, but both as a developer and as an end user. As a developer, writing responsive web apps provides decentralization, not being a slave to a monopoly platform, being able to push frequent updates, etc. As an end user, I almost always prefer web versions over native apps. I have a very small number of iOS apps installed, like a very good Go game, Chess game, a few development tools on my iPad, and my bank’s app. On my MacBook and Linux laptops I have open source software development tools and Firefox. I hope I don’t sound too political here, but I feel the need to constantly push back against corporations and uphold my rights as a tiny minority (me!, not a democrat, republican, vegetarian, whatever). I sometimes choose to be a paying customer of Google, Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft for services that I highly value, but they don’t own my loyalty except for a few products that I am at this time happy to pay them for at this moment in time.