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Make web apps. It’s that simple. People complain about the play store and the Apple App Store yet continue to submit apps there that don’t even require native f
by endisneigh 5y ago
Make web apps. It’s that simple. People complain about the play store and the Apple App Store yet continue to submit apps there that don’t even require native functionality.
Wordle went from web app to sold in what, two months? Native apps aren’t required. Make web apps and we need to unite and figure out a common distribution method.
When a critical mass is reached - Google in particular - is incentivized to help galvanize even further. Heck, Google tried to make PWAs a thing. It’s Apple that benefits more from app stores at the moment.
- dcow 5y agoThe ops app actually does use native features. You can’t set timer reminders in a web app.
- endisneigh 5y agoRight, yet the core functionality doesn’t really need native functionality.
- dcow 5y agoNeither do half the apps on the app store.
- endisneigh 5y agoYes, my point exactly.
- hbn 5y agoA game where I pop in for 2 minutes once per day and type a few letters is not my standard usecase for computing. In fact it's quite unique compared to anything else I do on my phone. There's a lot of tradeoffs given up when writing a webapp over a native app. It's not just "it's accessed through the browser"
- phreack 5y agoLike the article writer mentioned, this is a very important lesson, but if you're in the 10% of cases where you do require native functionality (like a chat app for example) you're screwed with Apple.