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> 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
by 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.