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And you simply increase the work for 3rd party developers to create multiple apps for multiple platforms. Apple can achieve this because they’ve made extremely

And you simply increase the work for 3rd party developers to create multiple apps for multiple platforms. Apple can achieve this because they’ve made extremely profitable ecosystems on both the desktop and mobile (although both appear to be heading towards a race to the bottom). Linux has no such luxury. The vast majority of apps on Linux would simply never work on Mobile because no one would bother creating a mobile app for Linux, because of the chicken and egg problem created by the non existent market share for Linux phones.

a-dub 4y ago
> The vast majority of apps on Linux would simply never work on Mobile because no one would bother creating a mobile app for Linux, because of the chicken and egg problem created by the non existent market share for Linux phones. they would never work on mobile because they are fundamentally different computing paradigms with very different use cases. breaking the desktop is not going to fix the situation on mobile.