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Well as software engineers there’s not as much we can do for people who don’t have computing devices, but it’s still important that information be accessible wi
by jolux 2y ago
Well as software engineers there’s not as much we can do for people who don’t have computing devices, but it’s still important that information be accessible without them.
- arp242 2y agoWell, people can have laptops, or "unsupported" phones (i.e. non-iPhone/Android). Locking all sorts of basic stuff to two for-profit closed platforms sounds rather non-ideal to me. It's also quite a shift from stuff being web-based, where in principle you or I could sit down and write a compatible browser and/or port an existing browser (some work, but very doable). It's not all that different from locking everything to Windows and/or Internet Explorer like it was 20 years ago, except worse because it's so much more pervasive now. The old "mandatory Microsoft tax" got replaced with a "mandatory Google/Apple tax". Any startup has basically zero chance of entering the market.
- scarface_74 2y agoThese were browser benchmarks not app benchmarks.