More snake oil from the Internet industry as usual. It is almost 30 years since the web came into existence and somehow people harbour this illusion that those

More snake oil from the Internet industry as usual. It is almost 30 years since the web came into existence and somehow people harbour this illusion that those who control the standards or are responsible for implementing them are genuinely committed to delivering technology which will help the competition (ie the rest of the world) bypasses their app stores. It makes one wonder whether those who keep blabbing on about these wonderful new technologies are shills or just stupid. Do they believe that a company that patented round corners and tie batteries to a particular phone to prevent it from working on another of the same make to be committed to technologies that bypasses their app stores? Do they think companies which ban apps from their stores as a consequence of their political partisanship will create an easy and effective bypass for them? I see someone mention Blazor below? Why not Silverlight? Oh it is proprietary. Well there are only two players in the browser market now, Apple and Google, and somehow between the two of them they can't come up with an NPAPI replacement although one of them makes the other happy to the tune of $12bn a year. It is 10 years since these companies conspired to deprecate Flash on the grounds that it was buggy and performance was poor. 10 years on phones and computers are an order of magnitude more powerful, yet through some mysterious means the replacement technologies are still buggy, underperformant, need more refinement yada yada yada. Why do otherwise intelligent people continue to put with this fraud, or is more a matter of Stockholm Syndrome?