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Re:Google offered Netflix a sweetheart deal to pay just 10 p... by clarifyingN on Saturday November 11, 2023 @11:26AM (#38231667)
> Apple delaying the progress of "web" (or just another kind of app) is good for users. Because user don't need another OS between the host os and their apps.

It's categorically not good for the consumer. It's good for the small enterprise companies/upstarts that don't have the budget to keep iterating their software, which would otherwise be left in the dust quiet quickly. With apple holding it back, they've got a bigger timeframe in which their software doesn't behave as a legacy application, as everyone Else is forced to use subpar features too.

From the users perspective it is - just as they said - worse, as things like codec support improve battery life and playback quality for example.

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Re:Google offered Netflix a sweetheart deal to pay just 10 p... by larme on Saturday November 11, 2023 @12:40PM (#38232475)
small enterprise companies/upstarts can design their apps more like the traditional dynamic web site. For 95% use case that's good enough. And for the rest 5% case that requires a heavy web "app", you will find out that it's usually not what a small company can do. It's more likely uber or starbuck or facebook or google or microsoft.
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