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I’m not sure why this isn’t highlighted more often, but I don’t see this just as a take on making web apps less relevant for iOS users. Rather what I see is a
by philplckthun 6y ago
I’m not sure why this isn’t highlighted more often, but I don’t see this just as a take on making web apps less relevant for iOS users.
Rather what I see is a system to take on and take back control from the “app in app” WeChat ecosystem that has taken over so many parts of everyday life in China.
It seems to me that Apple is looking to replicate that success, and sees the potential for apps that users don’t want to keep around permanently.
It is indeed sad that this may discourage companies further from building solid web apps, especially if Android counters this system with their own, but I think it’ll mainly be interesting to see if and how it’ll affect WeChat in China.
- plokiju21 6y agoAndroid actually already has something similar: https://developer.android.com/topic/google-play-instant https://developer.android.com/topic/google-play-instant
- Farbklex 6y agoNot similar. It is absolutely the same.
- jeroenhd 6y agoOnly Google Android, neither my current nor my previous phone have had the option to use instant apps. Maybe it's a region lock thing (I'm not in the US) but it's not globally available on all Play Services devices so I don't know what the point of putting effort into Instant Apps really is. It only makes sense to support all of Google Android or none of Google Android.
- philplckthun 6y agoIt’s great to see that that’s already supported! I wasn’t aware of that, and it’ll allow Google to pivot this feature towards a similar use-case. Right now however it seems to primarily be marketed to mobile game developers.
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