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#2I am deeply invested in the Apple ecosystem and yet, can’t wait for the DoJ to throw the gauntlet on the App Store.
I really hope they get broken up, with the App Store being extracted into a separate business.
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#3 > Without our apps, the iPhone has little value to most of its customers today.
Looking at my iPhone I see no 3rd party apps. I use safari to access websites and eschew any service that wants me to "use our app" and doesn't have a web version.
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#4Apple has historically never considered their products as a platform, but rather as a final product, useable as-is.
iOS was initially completely closed, for bullshit reasons.
Helping developers is never a priority, and it is easy to feel when you try to build something running on their products.
This is unfortunate and I think it is highly irrational.
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#5Agree to disagree.
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#6I'm wondering if webapps are achieving parity with native apps. My intuition says that most of the use cases today could transfer over if they really wanted to.
Does anyone have any insight into the major differences between native and web app in 2021?
The biggest disparity between webapp and native used to be Notifications - but with Twilio, it appears trivial to make an arguably better notifications user flow through SMS and direct link to user content.
For the rest of the differences, it feels like much of the benefit Apple brings to the table (view management, security, continuity between devices, distribution, ...), does appear to carry a premium when placed in comparison to building a monolith web app.
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#7One profit maximizer vs another.
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#8> Without our apps, the iPhone has little value to most of its customers today. Looking at my iPhone I see no 3rd party apps. I use safari to access websites and eschew any service that wants me to "use our app" and doesn't have a web version.
I believe you, but surely you realize that you are an outlier?
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#9> Modern society has come to rely so heavily on mobile apps that any phone manufacturer must ensure that such a healthy ecosystem exists as table stakes for anyone to buy their phones.
I don't think this is true. It may be an unfortunate end. I'm actually intending to move to a flip phone since...
Re: Apple-Developer Relations
#10I'm wondering if webapps are achieving parity with native apps. My intuition says that most of the use cases today could transfer over if they really wanted to. Does anyone have any insight into the major differences between native and web app in 2021? The biggest disparity between webapp and native used to be Notifications - but with Twilio, it appears trivial to make an arguably better notifications user flow throu…
This is why I'm optimistic about WebAssembly, beyond time and investment, what prohibits it from achieve performance parity with native?