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Re:Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly reve... by coldtea on Sunday May 23, 2021 @11:14AM (#27255526)
Yes. To avoid the crappification of mobile, where everything it's a bunch of slow, memory and battery draining Electron apps, doing whatever they want, each with custom UI...
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Re:Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly reve... by mhh__ on Sunday May 23, 2021 @01:02PM (#27256578)
Definitely that and not to avoid the potential for circumventing their lock-in. If Apple were that obsessed with performance, their LLVM backends wouldn't be closed source.
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Re:Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly reve... by ubercow13 on Sunday May 23, 2021 @12:32PM (#27256313)
How is that not what exists? Aren't many apps based on web technologies, and/or have custom UIs? There's little standardisation even among 'real' native apps.
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Re:Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly reve... by coldtea on Sunday May 23, 2021 @12:51PM (#27256488)
>How is that not what exists? Aren't many apps based on web technologies, and/or have custom UIs?

Yes, but

(a) some, as opposed to all which is the dream of the pro web-app camp.

(b) forbidding custom JS and web engines helps keep this low

(c) even the crappy mobile-webview apps at least have to be wrapped in an app container, be installable and uninstallable the same way, be notarized, use the same payment system with central control, and be tied to the same policies (e.g. regarding privacy, notifications, use of apis) as native mobile apps

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