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Yes this is what I had in mind. The vision was fine. Reality went somewhere else I do think native iOS apps feel superior to web ones. Somewhat it feels it'

by tough 4y ago

Yes this is what I had in mind. The vision was fine. Reality went somewhere else I do think native iOS apps feel superior to web ones. Somewhat it feels it's due to Apple not implementing new features like safari only supports push notifications since a few months ago

klabb3 4y ago
The web wasn’t ready, but native was arguably even less ready due to lack of sandboxing. High fidelity would have been possible with a web based SDK. But that would have invited plebs to convert existing shitty pages to be “apps”, and in those days iOS apps was a noise-free exclusive experience. Web or not, gatekeeping software distribution was and remains a power grab, unrelated to security. It’s even less of an issue on mobile which has proper sandboxing anyway.