My only fear is that ultimateGuitarTabs will use these developments to make visiting their site on mobile even more of a hellish experience.
I switched to Android after 7 years of iOS
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Re: I switched to Android after 7 years of iOS
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> Except that Android is the open one that is implementing agreed upon standards, and Apple is the laggard left behind. Given that many of these things are potential exploit vectors, I am not inclined to fault Apple for taking its time to implement them. Also, we are at the point where the standards are driven by a select few companies. If I recall correctly, those are Apple, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla. Opera used…
Do you have any evidence for your claim about "potential exploit vectors", or is it just speculation? I don't know if you can claim Chrome is insecure, simply because it supports more web standards. e.g. look at the results of the recent pwn2own contest: http://venturebeat.com/2016/03/18/pwn2own-2016-chrome-edge-a... There are other variables that probably have a greater impact on the security of a browser.
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Re: I switched to Android after 7 years of iOS
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> Pretty much all they can do when they see a blinking light is take the car to a mechanic. Why? Don't they have OBD-2 readers?
Not that, but certain "luxury-brand" cars specifically don't want you fiddling with anything, and to simply bring it in for a service. E.g. The weirdest part of it (after driving an old car for the longest time) was they explicitly tell you not to have gas-station attendants check your oil for you. If you're leaking/losing oil, the lights will at some point come on and prompt you to take the car in for service.
> E.g. The weirdest part of it (after driving an old car for the longest time) was they explicitly tell you not to have gas-station attendants check your oil for you. If you're leaking/losing oil, the lights will at some point come on and prompt you to take the car in for service.
Why is that weird? It's a pressurized system with plenty of sensors, you are certainly better off following the data than a gas station attendant (which itself is an old fashioned concept in most places).
Re: I switched to Android after 7 years of iOS
#324Nearly all of the comments here are missing the point of this blog post. The author likes Progressive Web apps, they are important to him. He's moving to Android because it supports the web better.
That's it.
This isn't iOS vs Android and it certainly isn't web vs native. Yes, the article is critical of native apps (and the app store) so I can see how you'd go there but it's a distraction. I see this article as an"I want to use the best mobile web platform possible" argument.
Re: I switched to Android after 7 years of iOS
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> Maintainability is the feature of unreliable equipment. Not quite. The whole purpose of maintenance is to increase the longevity of a product by making small, cheap, tweaks to complex parts that can fail due to wear and tear. Everything lasts longer if you maintain it. A good knife, a high performance vehicle, a good pair of shoes, a couch, etc ... I don't know of any product that is "as good as new" after years of…
You don't maintain CPU's. 1,000,000,000+ parts and it just works.
CPUs don't have a billion parts. The unpackaged die is one carefully crafted solid.
Re: I switched to Android after 7 years of iOS
#326The argument seems to be that app developers aren't doing very well on the app store, and you're looking to the free and open web as the place where vast sums of money will be made? For the vast majority of these apps, I beg to differ. The web plays by the same rules as the app ecosystem: it's very expensive to monetize, unless of course you are creating value for someone who has money and minimal friction when payin…
> Web apps have an extra layer between themselves and the hardware.
True but, on the other hand, native apps require extra steps to be taken by the user (go to the App Store, download the app) which somehow makes user acquisition harder. However we could also argue that once a native app is installed, that increases the chances of user retention, i.e. the user is more likely to use that service again.
Re: I switched to Android after 7 years of iOS
#327Nearly all of the comments here are missing the point of this blog post. The author likes Progressive Web apps, they are important to him. He's moving to Android because it supports the web better. That's it. This isn't iOS vs Android and it certainly isn't web vs native. Yes, the article is critical of native apps (and the app store) so I can see how you'd go there but it's a distraction. I see this article as an"I…
Exactly.
I'm not sure why people are giving anecdotes about switching to iOS from Android like the blog post was about a personal device usage decision vs. a decision to switch developmental platform due to better support for the web.
It's one of the better written blog posts, and has convinced me to look at PWAs. The future he outlines with seamless installations and cross-platform fallback IS something I want to get to.
Re: I switched to Android after 7 years of iOS
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I'm still with you father on modern vechicles. Yes--the engine light comes on, and I can read a PID trouble code on many vechicles. The fault code is not always the problem. It's just not that simple to fix a modern vechicle. I pull a generic pid of XXXX, but maybe, around 30% of the time it's just that error code. Manufacturers have scan tools that read there products very well. Much better than my Snap-on 2500mt. I…
Good post. And that's why if I ever by a car it'll be older and not require a proprietary computer sensor to maintain. That and I have a hard time with the new "smart" driving technology. I was in my friend's Subaru last week and it beeped anytime he did anything remotely out of line...
> Good post. And that's why if I ever by a car it'll be older and not require a proprietary computer sensor to maintain.
If that day comes you should find a way to secure it because almost all older cars are very easy to steal. Those computer bits make new cars much more difficult to snatch.
Re: I switched to Android after 7 years of iOS
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A malicious app must be installed before it can run and is likely vetted by the maintainers of a package manager or App Store. A webpage running JavaScript simply runs with no inspection from anyone. Also, a malicious party usually cannot inject code into an installed app. Injecting it into a webpage you visit is far easier. Ad/tracking networks have been used for that. There is the possibility of a MITM attack if al…
Firstly, these powerful features are not available unless your site is properly (I.E. fully, absolutely nothing can be plain HTTP) protected by HTTPS. You cannot even create service worker without working HTTPS so any kind of PWA is out of question without HTTPS. Secondly, any browser that supports these capabilities also supports Content Security Policy which makes your site trivially immune to XSS and I expect that…
First, black hats hack into sites protected by HTTPS all the time. Requiring HTTPS does not protect you when the server is compromised. Second, XSS is not needed to exploit devices on the other side. Third, users click/tap yes to just about any dialog, no matter what it says.
Re: I switched to Android after 7 years of iOS
#330My main exposure to Chrome web apps is Hangouts on Chrome for Mac and half the time I shut it down and choose to use the native app on my phone instead due to the poor, non-native UI and the battery life impact of Chrome. edit: the other shiny Google Web App example, Google Docs, doesn't work either. In Safari it likes to drops keys, and the last time I used it in Chrome (last autumn), it would either crash the whole…
> Every web app I've used has required a painful sign-up process, which is usually where I bail out of the process. Way more friction than an app store install.
Support for password managers like LastPass is one of the areas where Android shines compared to iOS.
Also, you seem to imply that most apps downloaded from the app store don't require a sign-up process. I beg to differ. And I note that the sign-up process is even more painful outside of a browser (e.g. outside of the browser you can't use LastPass to generate a random password for you)