> It is in the same way that the latest snake oil, WebAssembly, is doomed to fail because GAM will never permit web applications that may equal or surpass their

> It is in the same way that the latest snake oil, WebAssembly, is doomed to fail because GAM will never permit web applications that may equal or surpass their own offerings or threaten their mobile ecosystems. Google is the primary driver of the PWA standard - you can make great, native-like webapps on Android that will install themselves through their "WebAPK" system. I'm not sure why they are doing this, it may just be another way to step around monopoly charges - either way, it's cool tech. Apple is the real issue here, because they purposefully cripple any such API, if they ever get around to implementing it(they have far more to lose). Just look at the MDN pages of any API built to facilitate native-like capabilities, you'll see them all missing or crippled on mobile Safari.