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Re:Hobson's Browser: How Apple, Facebook and Google broke th... by paulryanrogers on Sunday July 25, 2021 @12:28AM (#27946732)
I'm curious if FirefoxOS had gone differently if Apple and others would've considered supporting a native-web approach for apps. (Albeit also tied to only one or a few blessed HTML and JS engines.)
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Re:Hobson's Browser: How Apple, Facebook and Google broke th... by JimDabell on Sunday July 25, 2021 @01:09AM (#27946875)
That was the Apple party line when the iPhone was first released – the only Apple-blessed way to build iPhone applications was to build mobile-friendly web applications. There was a backlash – everybody complained and demanded native applications; the App Store was opened the year after.

https://9to5mac.com/2011/10/21/jobs-original-vision-for-the-...

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Re:Hobson's Browser: How Apple, Facebook and Google broke th... by paulryanrogers on Sunday July 25, 2021 @08:29AM (#27948671)
IIRC FirefoxOS did it differently. Apps were local bundles of web tech. Not only pinned links to open a browser.
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