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Apple has historically never considered their products as a platform, but rather as a final product, useable as-is. iOS was initially completely closed, for bu

Apple has historically never considered their products as a platform, but rather as a final product, useable as-is. iOS was initially completely closed, for bullshit reasons. Helping developers is never a priority, and it is easy to feel when you try to build something running on their products. This is unfortunate and I think it is highly irrational.

Terretta 5y ago
Arguably iOS was originally intended and designed to run HTML5 web apps without intermediation. Web tech based applets downloadable and runnable from a home screen, similar to Palm Pre and WebOS.
- canuckintime 5y ago
  Not quite (HTML5 wasn’t even finalized for release until 2014). Jobs really intended for Apple-only Native Apps, one of which was a Safari, that allowed third party services via webpages > similar to Palm Pre and WebOS. not quite. webOS was more than 'tech based applets'. webOS tried to leverage HTML and CSS as the programming language for native apps much like Android leveraged Java. It was not the same philosophy as iPhone OS 1.0