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Re:If It Weren’t for Apple, Hybrid App Development Would Be ... by ashark on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @11:50AM (#14410910)
Exactly my first thought on reading the headline. "Oh, really? Then thanks for prioritizing my battery life and general UX over cheaper app development, Apple!"
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Re:If It Weren’t for Apple, Hybrid App Development Would Be ... by mitchty on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @12:19PM (#14411147)
Exactly. I remember hearing "eight megs and constantly swapping" as a joke, I think for anything javascript app related I can now say: 8 watts and constantly increasing

The amount of energy javascript pages now take makes me in some ways wish we had the ease of blocking crap like flash back in the day to not make my fans spin.

Also a webpage or app taking up 900MiB of memory? Really, this is what I want? Hell no, i'll stick to what I have thank you very much.

Certain web developers are an interesting breed of late.

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Re:If It Weren’t for Apple, Hybrid App Development Would Be ... by thehardsphere on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @12:51PM (#14411430)
>Certain web developers are an interesting breed of late.

We live in an age of unparalleled abundance. "Evolution" no longer selects as aggressively against devs who are inefficient.

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Re:If It Weren’t for Apple, Hybrid App Development Would Be ... by wolfgke on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @07:29PM (#14414256)
> "Evolution" no longer selects as aggressively against devs who are inefficient.

It still does - but now efficiency is measured in development/maintenance time.

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