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> For reasons we may never figure out, the browser never evolved beyond its initial incarnation. The reason is simple, the 30% app store profits. Very low ince
by dahdum 4y ago
> For reasons we may never figure out, the browser never evolved beyond its initial incarnation.
The reason is simple, the 30% app store profits. Very low incentives for either of the 2 major players to improve things, and tens of billions of reasons yearly to slow things down.
- amelius 4y agoExactly. Still, what happened to FirefoxOS?
- rakoo 4y agoIt was forked into KaiOS, targeting feature phones and allowing devs to use web technologies for building apps.
- enos_feedler 4y agoYou can't blame the app stores or the mobile platforms. The truth is that _anyone_ could re-imagine a web browser and build something brand new and become successful distributing through the store for free.
- science4sail 4y agoApple already foresaw that possibility and banned it . iOS users are forced to use Safari.