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.
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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.).