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You joke, but if the web were invented today, browsers would never be allowed onto mobile app stores.

• blowski 5y ago
  The saddest bit of that is that mobile app stores would not exist if it weren't for the web. The only reason we got smartphones was to browse the web on the go.
• Blikkentrekker 5y ago
  Well yes, alcohol is legal and people seem surprisingly okay with how much slavery goes into the cobalt of the average mobile phone as well as the Qatar football stadium. The biggest ally of slavery is of course an œconomic dependence thereupon. — The knight in the shining armor standing for the downtrodden remains awfully silent when he depends on said downtrodden for the polish to keep his armor so shiny.
• sneak 5y ago
  If the web were invented today, search engines would get sued into oblivion.
• ohazi 5y ago
  This is already the case on iOS, where every browser must be reimplemented as a Safari skin.