Re:Apple has made it difficult to use web-based technology o...
by michaelmrose on Friday November 08, 2019 @07:56PM
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Electron is a tool for the desktop/laptop market where apple has a smaller share yet. It's more like 10%. It's also a market where people are used to manually installing apps.
The worst case scenario is that apple loses some revenue and major players avoid the mac app store for desktop apps.
Apple who gets most of their money from mobile will not care. App developers will lose some convenience but negligible money and they wont care.
Re:Apple has made it difficult to use web-based technology o...
by DaiPlusPlus on Friday November 08, 2019 @07:59PM
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Even so, there is a halo-effect - and customers’ expectations to meet.
Re:Apple has made it difficult to use web-based technology o...
by cglace on Friday November 08, 2019 @07:22PM
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This isn’t about the mobile market...
Re:Apple has made it difficult to use web-based technology o...
by coldtea on Saturday November 09, 2019 @11:20AM
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The apps mentioned (Spotify, Slack) are also available on the mobile market.
Since they need to have them there, and don't use Electron there already, they can have them in macOS without it trivially.
Re:Apple has made it difficult to use web-based technology o...
by brodyprice on Friday November 08, 2019 @07:29PM
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Mobile market? Electron is a framework for desktop apps...
Spotify and co will care more of getting into that 30% of the mobile market (and the more lucrative 30% at that) by doing whatever they can, than Apple would worry about them leaving because no Electron is allowed...