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Man I would love love love love to be able to have mobile device running a stock or near-stock Linux distro. But I also want to be able to use things like cont
by kelnos 2y ago
Man I would love love love love to be able to have mobile device running a stock or near-stock Linux distro.
But I also want to be able to use things like contactless payment and banking apps. I actually wish in some ways that Jobs had kept with his original plan not to release an iPhone SDK (that was the original plan, right? I'm not misremembering?), and push the web platform hard for apps. Then mobile apps would have been naturally cross-platform, or at least cross-platform-possible, only requiring new JS APIs to be implemented in whatever available open-source browser.
It's a little ironic, because these days I advocate against closed, walled-garden platforms. But this unrealized future (well, present, I guess) would have required an iPhone that was even more locked down than it is, not allowing any non-Apple native apps on it.
- xethos 2y agoWould it have had to be more locked-down? I think letting the web be a first-class citizen would have been enough; economic incentives would have taken care of the rest, because few companies want dramatically more paid devs on staff (for iOS, Android, BBOS10, Windows Mobile, etc) for a marginally better experience "Just throw out a PWA" would have been enough for most execs to get behind, IMO, especially in the early days when who knows which platforms will stick around and have been worth developing for in the first place.