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I keep repeating this argument in different forums, but: if you every lived in China you would realize that the native app is the past and the future. Since gov
by magpi3 5y ago
I keep repeating this argument in different forums, but: if you every lived in China you would realize that the native app is the past and the future. Since governments can block websites, that means they can block your web apps too. When I came to China I completely lost access to Google Docs, Gmail, Facebook, etc. Relying on web apps is exactly like giving governments the right to uninstall applications on your computer.
Right now this is not a big deal in most countries. Right now. But as the web becomes increasingly balkanized (and I believe it will) and as countries become less democratic (always a possibility) the native app with local data will reassert its prominence in people's lives.
- ggk 5y ago> Relying on web apps is exactly like giving governments the right to uninstall applications on your computer. To some extent, governments, across the globe, are already exercising this right in some form. Quite often we hear that some government has banned some app and it becomes illegal to use that app in that country.
- SiVal 5y agoThis is an important point, but then "native" iOS has the same vulnerability. Apple arguably has more power to block iOS apps than China has to block the Web, so China just tells Apple to block what they want blocked, and Apple does it.
- cosmojg 5y agoIf it makes you feel better, efforts are being made to bring non-tyrannical operating systems to mobile in a braindead-easy, consumer-friendly fashion. You can search up loads of articles about the amazing stuff that the peeps running organizations like Pine64 and LineageOS have been up to. I'm carefully optimistic!