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Re:The Internet Economy by Natanael_L on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @02:53PM (#11669603)
That would have made the performance far worse in particular on low end devices. And there were no sufficient, complete and useful HTML5 standards that could allows web apps to compete with local software.

Extending the web standards would simply have been too much work and caused too much trouble.

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Re:The Internet Economy by amelius on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @03:27PM (#11669877)
> That would have made the performance far worse in particular on low end devices.

Well, the most important thing people do, even on low-end devices, is browse the web.

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Re:The Internet Economy by 0xsnowcrash on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @01:26AM (#11672805)
Arguably not. But even with this use case, the Web has got significantly more complex. Local Storage, local databases, GPS access, gesture detection to name a few. That all hits Web performance hard especially on earlier mobile devices.
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Re:The Internet Economy by c1sc0 on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @03:54PM (#11670109)
No, that would be IM/chat these days
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Re:The Internet Economy by amelius on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @04:23PM (#11670353)
Ok. But does that require more performance than webbrowsing?
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Re:The Internet Economy by LoSboccacc on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @05:26PM (#11670796)
See: http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/11/mark-zuckerberg-our-biggest...
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