Re:Google’s not-so-secret new OS
by TeMPOraL on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @05:08AM
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> 2) I'm not sure if our expectations have lowered much. Perhaps it's more that mobile interfaces are generally simpler and thus easier to make 'native enough'?
I think people finally called the bluff that users have any expectations. And even if they had, what they don't have is choice. The current market is that everyone is building a walled garden around their selling proposition, so if a company decides to make a web app instead of a native one, then that's all you have. Nobody will make a better one and risk getting sued. If a service doesn't want third party applications, then they won't happen.
As you note in your comment, if one sticks with default, "stock" elements in their web app, things look and behave OK on a given platform. But nobody does that, for some reason everyone has to screw this up with tons of CSS and JavaScript that make the whole thing maybe prettier, but also noticeably slower and without all the native idiosyncrasies.
I think people finally called the bluff that users have any expectations. And even if they had, what they don't have is choice. The current market is that everyone is building a walled garden around their selling proposition, so if a company decides to make a web app instead of a native one, then that's all you have. Nobody will make a better one and risk getting sued. If a service doesn't want third party applications, then they won't happen.
As you note in your comment, if one sticks with default, "stock" elements in their web app, things look and behave OK on a given platform. But nobody does that, for some reason everyone has to screw this up with tons of CSS and JavaScript that make the whole thing maybe prettier, but also noticeably slower and without all the native idiosyncrasies.