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by AznHisoka 4279 days ago
"getting a feature to market before a competitor"

Very rarely is that ever important in the mobile app industry.

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Is that because it wasn't possible or because it wasn't useful/helpful to do?
Not very useful. Mobile apps are pretty trivial to clone (clone poorly, usually), and anything remotely successfully is cloned within days of popping up on the radar.

The first-mover advantage is close to zero. The lone exception are things that are intrinsically hard to clone - deep hardware-level integration, native code that stretches the limits of current platform understanding, etc.

Which doesn't apply at all to webview-powered apps. At all.