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Re:No Cutting Corners on the iPhone X by ninkendo on Thursday February 01, 2018 @08:59PM (#16287772)
Another really obvious half-measure was that the original iPhone didn't have an app store. "HTML5 is your SDK", basically, and adding sites to your homescreen was all you could do. Steve Jobs tried to pretend this was a good thing:

> And guess what? There’s no SDK that you need! You’ve got everything you need if you know how to write apps using the most modern web standards to write amazing apps for the iPhone today. So developers, we think we’ve got a very sweet story for you. You can begin building your iPhone apps today.

They fixed that the very next release.

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Re:No Cutting Corners on the iPhone X by wodenokoto on Friday February 02, 2018 @06:34AM (#16289797)
At the time Google was experimenting with off-line apps with their proprietary Google gears.

At the time, Google and Apple had a very close relationship and I thought it was odd that Apple didn't implement offline web apps via gears.

Most iphone apps are, after all glorified web pages.

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Re:No Cutting Corners on the iPhone X by detaro on Friday February 02, 2018 @08:51PM (#16295673)
One might argue that it was merely to early for that, since web standards around it didn't exist and weren't provided by Apple either. Not having the required focus on the App Store could have been great!
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Re:No Cutting Corners on the iPhone X by TrainedMonkey on Thursday February 01, 2018 @09:40PM (#16287960)
Apple store is primarily a distribution/discovery channel, I would not be surprised if it started as - hey let's build a catalogue of all the websites that work well on iPhones.
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