Re:Why did the web take over desktop and not mobile?
by Razengan on Saturday September 11, 2021 @01:16PM
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> After they install some bloated IDE, learn some "tech", and pay the gatekeepers
Tell me how making and hosting a website is absolutely free.
Re:Why did the web take over desktop and not mobile?
by nsonha on Saturday September 11, 2021 @05:56PM
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You could not make this argument even 10 years ago, when you could absolutely make a sites on any of wordpress, tumblr, yahoo or blogspot completely free. These days there are even more choices ranging from WYCIWYG (Squarespace & the like) to absolutely free full CI/CD-ed platforms (heroku, Zeit, GitHub pages...). It's not like there is a duopoly on web hosting.
After they install some bloated IDE, learn some "tech", and pay the gatekeepers
> Maybe buried deep in the 100th page
But they can be found and share, as opposed to apps of a non existent category where average people publish what they are working on, their thoughts, or whatever. App Store and Google Play search would crumble at the scale of the number of websites in existence right now (~2 billions). Remember that search engines index what's inside those websites too not just their name and description.