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Edit: I'm removing this, I'm embarrassed that I conflated mac OS electron and phonegap. Please stop upvoting :/
by allworknoplay 7y ago
Edit: I'm removing this, I'm embarrassed that I conflated mac OS electron and phonegap. Please stop upvoting :/
- millstone 7y agoWhat are you talking about? Electron apps don't run on iOS.
- allworknoplay 7y agoHey, you're totally right, I misread the article, conflated electron with phonegap (have never worked with electron and haven't touched iOS in years), thought apple was pushing out some cross platform mobile apps. Totally off-base comment I'm embarassed about and would love to remove. I do maintain that the parent's poster takes joy in deliberately ignoring that apple obviously has incentives around building their ecosystem, but yeah, that was dumb.
- scarface74 7y agoI can’t think of a single non game iOS only app that makes enough revenue for Apple to care about. Most of the top grossing apps are games that wouldn’t be using a Javascript framework and are probably using a cross platform technology anyway. If Apple wants to have exclusive content on their platform, their not going to worry about small time developers who can only write iOS apps, they are going to fund the development themselves - see Apple Arcade. They care much more about the big name developers like Adobe and Microsoft bringing their apps to iPads - even if they don’t see one dime of revenue from the subscriptions to encourage people to buy top of the line high margin iPad Pros with all of the accessories.
- FussyZeus 7y agoTo be fair, all the performance issues of Electron apps on Mac are the same issues leading to the same problems that PhoneGap apps face on iOS.