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Where did I say "the world hasn't progressed since then"? That's a hallucinatory misreading & misrepresentation of my comment. But also: those successes are at
by gojomo 5y ago
Where did I say "the world hasn't progressed since then"? That's a hallucinatory misreading & misrepresentation of my comment.
But also: those successes are attributable to mobile apps in general, not Apple's self-serving policies.
Plausibly, all of these should be possible as zero-install web apps – but as Apple (& others) have started raking in the App Store money, their investment in competitive open web technologies that could match proprietary-platform native-apps has languished.
Further, the App Store's market power is now being used to limit the functionality of such apps – banning competitive payment mechanisms, or entire classes of disfavored speech and content, or product benefits that compete with Apple offerings.
And the App Store plus iOS power is being used to torpedo the business models of Apple competitors – as with the changes in tracking defaults that have kneecapped Facebook revenues, mafia-style.
Does local protection rackets deserve credit for every business that manages to pay, & survive, their shakedown?
- afthonos 5y ago> Plausibly, all of these should be possible as zero-install web apps – but as Apple (& others) have started raking in the App Store money, their investment in competitive open web technologies that could match proprietary-platform native-apps has languished. Worth noting that this was basically what Jobs offered developers initially and everyone hated it.
- gojomo 5y agoYes, developers wanted more. There were (at least) two paths possible: native apps, & upgrading web capabilities. It's good some effort was plowed into both, at different timescales! But currently, the App Store's monopoly/monoculture abuses are retarding progress. The App Store deserves credit not for creating or enabling the social app listed in the ggp – but instead for capturing more of the value of those innovations for AAPL owners & insiders.
- threeseed 5y ago> But currently, the App Store's monopoly/monoculture abuses are retarding progress No evidence of this what so ever.