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Ask HN: Why don’t companies build a browser app to get around Apple 30%
Companies like Spotify, Twitter and others could get together and build a browser app that provides Native API access using Capacitor JS. They let their own apps be deployed with it. No need to pay the Apple Tax because it’s a browser, just like Chrome.
- Ro_Khameshra 4y agoI think the biggest blocker is the distribution cost of it, the unit economics may not match the thought to build it themselves
- kristo 4y agoCurious what you mean? Like the cost to build the app itself?
- austin-cheney 4y agoI wasn’t aware of capacitorjs. https://capacitorjs.com/ https://capacitorjs.com/ I will look at using that as a means to bring my Node based OS to IPhone and then problem solved. https://github.com/prettydiff/share-file-systems https://github.com/prettydiff/share-file-systems