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Dumb question but Apple’s apps are buttery smooth. I just assumed they were using swift and not a web stack to render their UI. Am I completely wrong?!

• cyral 11mo ago
  This is the source for the web version of the app store
  • elpakal 11mo ago
    which is definitely not buttery smooth, I use it every day
    • jen729w 11mo ago
      It only came out yesterday.
      • bl0rg 11mo ago
        I see no contradiction here.
      • elpakal 11mo ago
        App Store Connect did not come out yesterday
  • socalgal2 11mo ago
    which is the same as they use in their native app. It's just a webview
    • javawizard 11mo ago
      Source?
• dewey 11mo ago
  Apple Music is not buttery smooth and was just a web view for a long time. I feel like I read that this changed a few years ago. This didn’t change the fact that it’s very slow.
  • lloeki 11mo ago
    The iTunes Store, which was embedded in iTunes, sure was a webview, but I don't think Apple Music ever was a webview? (Except maybe the "Home"/"For Me" pages which are just "discovery page" extensions of the store and the Apple Music service that's built on top of it) The macOS one descends from iTunes and the iOS one descends from the original iPhone which sure as hell wasn't a webview.
    • dewey 11mo ago
      It was, you often could see JS error messages or weird rendering errors / flickering (Also some other mentions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20892650 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20892650). There's also some parts of System Settings that were always web views, which I always found surprising for a company trying to make the case for native apps.