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Re:An entire Mobile OS built using HTML, CSS and JS - by Moz... by aboodman on Sunday March 18, 2012 @12:06PM (#3719965)
My point is that there is nothing* preventing any native app from including code to update itself. Over time, I believe that more and more native apps will do this. For example, Firefox is moving in that direction now.

* Except for in the case of iOS. Apple has a policy that apps are not allowed to update themselves. But there's still no technical limitation.

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Re:An entire Mobile OS built using HTML, CSS and JS - by Moz... by shinratdr on Sunday March 18, 2012 @05:26PM (#3721031)
Right so we're discussing the reality of the situation, which is that web apps would have no choice but to force update (as they would be run server-side and hence the client wouldn't have a choice) and that native apps could be possibly, but aren't.
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