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by cageface 652 days ago
Right. Without pressure from Chrome we'd be locked into proprietary, incompatible native app stores with no recourse over arbitrary, anti-competitive review processes. The flourishing of web apps like Figma and Notion would never have happened.

The web has many shortcomings as an app platform but at least you can still build what you want without getting permission from a trillion dollar tech giant.