Well... it's kind of a catch-22 though. If we all agree that it's good for web apps to be less capable than native apps, then we shouldn't be using the open av

Well... it's kind of a catch-22 though. If we all agree that it's good for web apps to be less capable than native apps, then we shouldn't be using the open availability of web apps as an excuse for censoring native apps. There's a lot of stuff this app can't do as a web-app that it can do as a native app. There's a faction of HN that wants to the web to be for read-only documents, and there's a faction of HN that wants the web to be an open, device-agnostic distribution platform for politically risky apps that Apple would otherwise lock off of its devices. But it can't be both. Those two factions often end up talking past each other. It's a very difficult balance.