Re:Apple’s M1 silicon is all about platform control
by matwood on Monday November 23, 2020 @11:21AM
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Not sure if OP means me, but if so there is a big difference. Going from web app only to a full SDK is opening up the platform, and a big step forward. Going from macOS today, to only allowing apps installed from the app store would be closing the platform and stepping backwards in a huge way.
Re:Apple’s M1 silicon is all about platform control
by kilburn on Monday November 23, 2020 @02:06PM
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> Going from web app only to a full SDK is opening up the platform
How is that so? The initial promise with "web apps only" was that they would add the necessary APIs for people to develop web-apps that could do almost anything.
Nowadays Apple (intentionally or not) is crippling the entire web-app ecosystem by not supporting the APIs that everyone else does (no notifications, non-standard manifest, etc.).
Re:Apple’s M1 silicon is all about platform control
by iSnow on Monday November 23, 2020 @11:12AM
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IIRC, some guys reverse-engineered the application packaging format and the APIs and were happily hacking away at installing their own apps. This awoke Apple and they created the AppStore.
Other examples of Apple reversing course would be "No stylus on iDevices", no use of intel chips, no switch back to scissor-type keyboards.
Of course Apple did a 180 soon after and introduced the iOS SDK.
Not so sure if that was flipping the script when they were ready or that Apple had hoped to not have to open the OS but bent to the developer outcry (or saw that there might be some merit for growing the platform in opening it up).