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Re:Goodbye Mozilla by scarface74 on Thursday June 29, 2017 @12:33AM (#14660791)
Palm - we are going to build a device that will let you build apps using web technologies. Developers rebel, Palm releases a native SDK.

Apple - you don't need native apps you can build great web apps. Developers and users rebel, a native SDK is introduced 9 months later.

Blackberry - you can build apps using Adobe based web technology. You get the picture...

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Re:Goodbye Mozilla by erikpukinskis on Thursday June 29, 2017 @05:30PM (#14667002)
None of those examples are what I described. Palm came closest, but still was web-like apps, not actual web apps.
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Re:Goodbye Mozilla by scarface74 on Thursday June 29, 2017 @11:32PM (#14668474)
That's just the point. Every mobile platform that come out has tried to tell the "you don't need native apps you can build web apps story" at some point besides Android.

Instead of web apps, Google stuck the world with a sub optimal Java implementation that they spent years trying to optimize.

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Re:Goodbye Mozilla by erikpukinskis on Sunday July 02, 2017 @02:17PM (#14683662)
None of those platforms told that story. None of those platforms released with web apps only.
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Re:Goodbye Mozilla by scarface74 on Sunday July 02, 2017 @07:14PM (#14684804)
Apple only allowed web apps at first. Palm's first SDK for WebOS was based on web technologies. BlackBerry's first SDK was based on Adobe Air.
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