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Yes it was, they later changed their stance. In the announcement for iPhone, Jobs on stage explicitly stated that all you need to develop an app was html and mo
by cronix 4y ago
Yes it was, they later changed their stance. In the announcement for iPhone, Jobs on stage explicitly stated that all you need to develop an app was html and modern javascript with API's into the phone hardware. And they would basically just be a PWA that would keep the app updated automatically as soon as the developer makes a change, all while keeping the iPhone "reliable and secure." In fact, he was bragging about not having a store "rather than having to go through this complex update process" as a dig at the Google play store.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvQ9JNm_qWc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvQ9JNm_qWc
- Despegar 4y agoAnd then everyone realized web apps sucked and demanded that Apple release an SDK, which they did, and the rest is history.
- heavyset_go 4y agoEarly phones ran on incredibly limited hardware and genuinely needed native applications just to do simple things. We've had 15 years of hardware and browser optimization, Moore's law, and development when it comes to mobile hardware. Web apps run just fine now. Hell, many native apps are just web apps via things React Native or webviews.