[api]

Mobile is the UI/UX equivalent of… I don’t even know… a moon landing? A wonder of the world?

I’m not saying it can’t be duplicated. I’m saying if you want to build a mobile platform you need to approach it with appropriate respect for the incredible difficulty of making something that usable.

[rpdillon]

Indeed. Power management alone is a massive research area with never-ending complexity across a bunch of domains. And nailing the ecosystem correctly is very hard (both devices and software). Security is another bottomless pit of research and improvement. When trillion-dollar companies like Amazon and Microsoft ceded mobile to Google and Apple, it was a good demonstration of how hard a successful mobile platform is to get off the ground.

[literalAardvark]

Nah that's complete bull. It's been a solved problem since Android 2.0.

The only thing they're improving on mobile these days are addictiveness and data collection.

[roundabout-host]

There are experimental mobile platforms, and they work fine. They won't appeal to the mass-market but there's really no reason to disallow them.

[account42]

UI/UX is not the problem at all, app compatibility/availability is.