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My understanding is that you would have to mark some of the apps pages as executable, iirc, which could allow for arbitrary code execution.

• jamiesonbecker 13y ago
  That makes little to no sense. This reeks of the same logic that caused them to disable HTML file upload buttons (there's "no" filesystem -- which is apparently why you can't even browse for photos and uploads until recent IOS). This is what drove "there's an app for that" for so many years: Apple's systematic limiting of web apps into a severely curtailed walled garden so that the app store would -- in fact, could -- be the only source for real applications. "Web Apps aren't as performant as native" is a direct result of such strategies. In other words, those strategies WORKED. As with all anti-competitive practices, they will keep doing their job for a while, until something new and better (or at least workable) comes along.
  • rimantas 13y ago
    Ok, show me Android apps which are as performant as native. This nonsense about Apple fearing web apps should stop already.
  • stevekinney 13y ago
    What's extra fun is that when Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone in 2007, he explained that developers could write web apps if they wanted to create software for the iPhone.
    • jamiesonbecker 13y ago
      I remember that, excellent point.