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The web is an open platform accessible to all and anyone. Mobile platforms in comparison are, depending on which one, either a walled garden or nearly so. Web a

• helf 4y ago
  You are adorable. Yes, iOS is a black box hellscape. Android less so. And webapps are the epitome of walled garden. The programs literally require a host server to function. All you get is front end. I take your point on accessibility. And that is the main draw for a lot of people and devs I imagine: I can access the thing I like from nearly anywhere and anything! And I can respect that. And it has its uses. My complaint is that this won’t be a choice eventually for most things. It’ll be “use this web version or nothing”. You are already seeing negative aspects of a lot of this even on desktop programs. Like look at Steam. It’s convenient. People have flocked to it. If you are offline you lose access to everything. Unless a cached credential is still working. If you lose access to your account, you’ve lost all your games. Blah blah. I’ve had personal experiences with this. It blows. It won’t stop it. People are fine till it happens to them. But then they forget it five seconds later and right back at it. *aaS is irritating as fuck