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by meibo 900 days ago
In my opinion, all of this falls apart once you consider that Apple has sabotaged the mobile web as an application platform basically since the inception of the iPhone. You actually just don't have a choice if you want to reach that audience, in a lot of cases. Heck, we only now just got Web Push which sort of kinda works sometimes on mobile Safari at the moment.

I also disagree that every organization in a capitalist society has to be inherently evil, but that might be more of a fundamental discussion ;)
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mediumsmart 900 days ago
Apple has sabotaged the mobile web as an application platform basically since the inception of the iPhone.

There was a mobile web before the iPhone?

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kristiandupont 900 days ago
That's fair but it doesn't refute GP's point.

Things have improved vastly with the introduction of web push but Apple is still dragging their feet on making it possible to create a good mobile experience with web-only apps.

Now, I generally don't like conspiracy theories and I seek not to attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity (or even a lack of attention, etc.) However, in this particular case it seems very obvious to me that Apple is doing it in order to force developers to build native apps.

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