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Build web apps and free yourself from the tyranny of closed ecosystems. It's Closed vs. Open. Only the web is open. 99% of apps on both the Play Store and App S
by endisneigh 5y ago
Build web apps and free yourself from the tyranny of closed ecosystems. It's Closed vs. Open. Only the web is open. 99% of apps on both the Play Store and App Store could be implemented as web apps with no loss in functionality - in fact a very large chunk of them are web apps, simply wrapped in a web view.
- selfhoster11 5y agoThe web is a thin client, to an approximation. How does this solve the problem of letting customers run a fat app without forking over for the corresponding server horsepower to run it? I know that JS is high performance when written well, but it takes time and money to do it right.
- loloquwowndueo 5y agoUsers want a local app for no real reason, as evidenced by the thousands of apps that are nothing but a wrapper around a web application.
- selfhoster11 5y agoAt minimum, it provides a convenient bookmark on the home screen.
- heavyset_go 5y agoIf the users want native notifications, which most do, then developers have no choice but to release a native app because Apple purposely doesn't implement web standards on iOS that make web apps and PWAs usable.
- smolyeet 5y agoOr just switch to a platform that allows third party apps
- smoldesu 5y agoIf the platforms are equivalent in functionality, then why can't Apple let people freely sideload native apps?
- endisneigh 5y agoWho claimed the platforms are equivalent in functionality?