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Apple actually wanted to have only web apps on iOS initially. They only published the iOS SDK after the outcry of developers, because web apps sucked so much.

by steve1977 4y ago

Apple actually wanted to have only web apps on iOS initially. They only published the iOS SDK after the outcry of developers, because web apps sucked so much. I remember this well, as I was already developing with Cocoa on Mac OS X and was pretty disappointed in the beginning when there was no SDK for iOS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_SDK#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_SDK#History https://9to5mac.com/2011/10/21/jobs-original-vision-for-the-iphone-no-third-party-native-apps/ https://9to5mac.com/2011/10/21/jobs-original-vision-for-the-...

wiseowise 4y ago
The only bit that supports your argument is > The App Store came later and apparently as a reaction to jailbreakers and developer backlash. Which doesn’t have any source. > because web apps sucked so much Where did you get this?
- steve1977 4y ago
  Where did I get this? I was there - I remember it.
- steve1977 4y ago
  PS: As Steve Jobs was good friends with Larry Ellison, I can imagine he truly believed web apps would be sufficient (as Ellison was a long time proponent of them already). However I think while web apps can be „good enough“ [1] for many business applications (i.e. basically data entry and reporting), they weren’t good enough for what consumers wanted. [1] I mean people still accept suffering from stuff like SAP