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by hayksaakian 4274 days ago
Is that because it wasn't possible or because it wasn't useful/helpful to do?
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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.