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It’s arguable that Apple launched without an app store because they were still cleaning up APIs and coming up with a plan. (And, arguably wise, if so. Apple Wat
by perardi 6y ago
It’s arguable that Apple launched without an app store because they were still cleaning up APIs and coming up with a plan. (And, arguably wise, if so. Apple Watch came out with door with an awful development experience.)
But, yeah, that’s what they started with. And WebOS. And Firefox OS. Where are those web-only operating systems now?
- ta8645 6y agoSeems like WebAssembly would allow for success where it previously failed.
- Animats 6y agoWebAssembly lets you do all the things you could do with Java in the browser. And which weren't done.
- pjmlp 6y agoWith the plus that now a generation advocates it as if it was the very first of its kind.
- ta8645 6y agoThere are three major differences at least. Hardware performance has come a long way. Eventually every phone will be capable of running WebAssembly without the user needing to install or configure anything. And there are no license fees needed to pay per device or per developer.