• commander@lemmy.world
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      Steve Jobs just didn’t have the right foresight. PWA’s were a solution when the web was supposed to be the future of applications distribution. If he knew native apps were still the future and in app advertising and microtransactions were going to be where all was at, he would never have pushed PWA’s. Steve was a salesman first and foremost

    • DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.works
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      He believed if he made quality products, that the stock price increases all the soulless capitalists demanded would follow. Which of course they did. Then Tim Apple took over, and quality went out the window in favor of stock buybacks. Kind of like Boeing.

    • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de
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      Right? A well protected browser is about the best tool in this shi-nternet future.

      Back before iOS had apps, webapp devs were clever AF. There was Beejive web for multi-IM and all sorts of clever stuff.

      One can still put an icon for webapps on the home screen, and the OS even displays it as a full screen app. (Android has similar but not as elegant.)