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Not a great strategy. Can't compare apples and oranges. Long term weakening their web offering will only strengthen their competition and likely have compoundin
by keepamovin 3y ago
Not a great strategy. Can't compare apples and oranges. Long term weakening their web offering will only strengthen their competition and likely have compounding effects against their app store. Maybe it's a short term thing for them. Seems a better way would be to embrace web and create the synergies with their existing offerings that boost both...but, I think this highlights the issue
It's not so much about a binary choice between app store vs web. I think it's more just, the web is not very "Apple". It's too open, wild. If they go "all in" on the web, they'd be afraid to risk "losing themselves" or fucking something up and creating a backlash.
- simfree 3y agoThis strategy of trying to snuff out web apps by locking all iOS users into a decade out of date fork of Chrome that only gets a trickle of new features, and those features consistently have added UX friction that exists in no other modern borders is working in North America.
- keepamovin 3y agoTrue, it works some. But think of what could be done if they could get beyond their, albeit understandable, web aversion. Tho I disagree that Safari is so defunkt as you make out. They have a bunch of new features. Check out: https://webkit.org/blog/15243/release-notes-for-safari-technology-preview-191/ https://webkit.org/blog/15243/release-notes-for-safari-techn...