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Yes, on mobile native is winning. I'm not sure there is much Google and Mozilla can do though. The main platform for app developers is iOS. The only way to coun
by azakai 13y ago
Yes, on mobile native is winning. I'm not sure there is much Google and Mozilla can do though. The main platform for app developers is iOS. The only way to counter that is to take market share from iOS (a goal towards which everything that can be done, is being done).
People make iOS apps and not web apps because iOS apps perform better on iOS than web apps on iOS. And iOS is where most app money is made. Making the web a better platform in general won't directly help with that, important as a goal it is.
I don't agree there is "bickering" over Dart, NaCl/PNaCl, asm.js. There are issues of principle there. For example, if we make the platform stronger but it loses some of its core attributes (like portability were NaCl to be adopted) then the whole thing is at risk of becoming pointless. At the same time, we do need to make the platform stronger and competitive in terms of speed with native as much as possible, which is a fine line.