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The motivation to make the web an application platform is because the web is the only thing that could possibly displace Microsoft's stranglehold on non-server
by tenebrisalietum 4y ago
The motivation to make the web an application platform is because the web is the only thing that could possibly displace Microsoft's stranglehold on non-server PC operating systems, and is the only workable alternative to apps on iOS.
- notriddle 4y agoThat's half the reason. The other half of the reason is that Web applications are way easier to deploy, even if 100% of your users are on Windows, because the second-order-effect of being locked-down is less gatekeeping and less scare screens. If a web app is able to see stuff that it hasn't been explicitly granted access to, that's considered the Browser's fault for allowing it instead of it being the User's fault for installing an untrusted app.