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by erikpukinskis 3282 days ago
None of those examples are what I described. Palm came closest, but still was web-like apps, not actual web apps.
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scarface74 3281 days ago
That's just the point. Every mobile platform that come out has tried to tell the "you don't need native apps you can build web apps story" at some point besides Android.

Instead of web apps, Google stuck the world with a sub optimal Java implementation that they spent years trying to optimize.

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erikpukinskis 3279 days ago
None of those platforms told that story. None of those platforms released with web apps only.
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scarface74 3279 days ago
Apple only allowed web apps at first. Palm's first SDK for WebOS was based on web technologies. BlackBerry's first SDK was based on Adobe Air.
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