It seems that the new macs are able to run mobile apps, and it won't take long until android does the same on windows pcs.
Is there a chance that in 10 years everybody is using native mobile apps on desktops?
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Ask HN: Can the ARM Macs/PCs end the web as we know it?
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Re: Ask HN: Can the ARM Macs/PCs end the web as we know it?
#2“Always bet on the web.”
PWA trumps mobile apps — until or unless it can be articulated why a PWA/hybrid app won’t work, but that is the small minority of app cases.
Re: Ask HN: Can the ARM Macs/PCs end the web as we know it?
#3“Always bet on the web.” PWA trumps mobile apps — until or unless it can be articulated why a PWA/hybrid app won’t work, but that is the small minority of app cases.
>PWA trumps mobile apps
In what sense? Most people use mobile apps than browse the web through mobile -- and most surf from mobile vs PC.
(The fact that said mobile apps might be web-based is an implementation detail).
Re: Ask HN: Can the ARM Macs/PCs end the web as we know it?
#4>> it won't take long until android does the same on windows pcs
Chromebooks run android apps today.
Windows computers will run android apps with BlueStacks or a similar emulator.
Until mobile apps can do EVERYTHING that desktops apps do, desktop apps are here to stay.
Re: Ask HN: Can the ARM Macs/PCs end the web as we know it?
#5“Always bet on the web.” PWA trumps mobile apps — until or unless it can be articulated why a PWA/hybrid app won’t work, but that is the small minority of app cases.
Apple hobbles PWAs on iOS, so unless app creators want to ignore the most profitable segment of the mobile marketplace PWAs aren’t a solution
Re: Ask HN: Can the ARM Macs/PCs end the web as we know it?
#6“Always bet on the web.” PWA trumps mobile apps — until or unless it can be articulated why a PWA/hybrid app won’t work, but that is the small minority of app cases.
> PWA trumps mobile apps In what sense? Most people use mobile apps than browse the web through mobile -- and most surf from mobile vs PC. (The fact that said mobile apps might be web-based is an implementation detail).
Because then you don't have to download and install an app
Re: Ask HN: Can the ARM Macs/PCs end the web as we know it?
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
> PWA trumps mobile apps In what sense? Most people use mobile apps than browse the web through mobile -- and most surf from mobile vs PC. (The fact that said mobile apps might be web-based is an implementation detail).
Because then you don't have to download and install an app
That's a non issue in modern mobile phones (which people use more than desktops/laptops these days).
Re: Ask HN: Can the ARM Macs/PCs end the web as we know it?
#8Why not just go back to desktop apps instead of mobile desktop apps?
Re: Ask HN: Can the ARM Macs/PCs end the web as we know it?
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because then you don't have to download and install an app
That's a non issue in modern mobile phones (which people use more than desktops/laptops these days).
[citation needed]
My mum wont install an app unless she has to. In my eyes this has failed the grandmother test.
Re: Ask HN: Can the ARM Macs/PCs end the web as we know it?
#10Why not just go back to desktop apps instead of mobile desktop apps?
This is what will be happening.