The software written for the earliest versions of iOS are now basically lost to history. The software people run on iOS today will probably last for even less t

The software written for the earliest versions of iOS are now basically lost to history. The software people run on iOS today will probably last for even less time. Decades from now, people will have virtually no insight into what it was we did on our phones all that time. In comparison, the archived web will survive as long as someone maintains some version of some browser. In the future, people might wonder why the mobile web was so limited on iOS. What they'll observe is the afterimage of the native apps whose APIs received Apple's attention instead, for all the good that will have done.