Not only are operating systems moving forward in their own direction, they are picking up the missing pieces that were traditionally reserved for the web. The

Not only are operating systems moving forward in their own direction, they are picking up the missing pieces that were traditionally reserved for the web. The two most important being URLs for deep linking between apps (universal links) and installing/fetching without redirect to a download page (app clips). At some point we will cut out the store publishing step for certain classes of same apps running in safe runtimes (wasm with some native bindings with safe data management). Then what is the difference? You might say compatibility across platforms. But compatibility really is broken in browsers today. So....