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by phpisthebest 1206 days ago
>>You are only left with web access, which is not really practical.

That is the saddest thing to come from Apples insatiable greed... The original iPhone was not going to have apps at all, it was all going to be web pages.

There is nothing stopping the browser from being the only app a device needs, nothing other than greed and authoritarian control that is...
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andsoitis 1206 days ago
You make it sound like you cannot access websites on an Apple device and only use apps instead… which of course isn’t true.

Having apps and a web browser really is the best of both worlds so I don’t quite understand your complaint.

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ceejayoz 1206 days ago
Apple has long dragged their feet on mobile Safari features that would be beneficial to websites-as-apps. This is changing somewhat, very recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34906722
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phpisthebest 1206 days ago
>>so I don’t quite understand your complaint.

as others have said they have gutted browser support and compatibility for advanced features in order to push people to Custom Apps where they can capture 30% of all revenue, instead of browser where they can capture 0%

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