Re:Google removed my ads-free app for “deceptive ads”
by kyralis on Monday March 25, 2019 @09:53PM
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Actually, you've got that history a little backward. The original iPhone had no App Store and had only web apps; that was the promoted way to develop for the platform. It was only after the phone's release and the mad clamor from developers to be allowed to develop native applications that an SDK was released and the App Store created.
Re:Google removed my ads-free app for “deceptive ads”
by echelon on Monday March 25, 2019 @10:08PM
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My mistake. Thank you for correcting me.
Re:Google removed my ads-free app for “deceptive ads”
by Nasrudith on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @01:33AM
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I think you are accidentally retconning current status quo onto the past - early mobile internet was terrible, low bandwidth enough that mobile was about /fitting/ the page down the pipe instead of user interface, and also expensive with far lesser adoption such that wifi-only tablets/PDAs were more of a thing.
Personal PCs were just this back in the 90's and 00's. Microsoft tried to create a walled garden, but it failed due to the world wide web.
Google and Apple saw how Microsoft failed and decided that the app store would be a first class citizen on day one and that the mobile web [1] would be an afterthought. They learned from Microsoft's mistake and used their positions to make app stores the new status quo.
It could have easily gone a different way, but I understand how the business interests got us to where we are.
[1] the mobile web wouldn't have been nice without more money and research poured into it. The web stack could have been supplemented or a new one could have been developed. These companies obviously had other priorities than to pay for something that netted them nothing, but individual developers wound out worse for it.