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Re:App Should Have Been a Website (and Probably Your Game Too) by panic on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @03:31PM (#42561609)
In fact, home-screen web apps on iPhone OS predate third-party apps on the platform. Originally all third-party software was going to be installed this way.
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Re:App Should Have Been a Website (and Probably Your Game Too) by madeofpalk on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @07:49PM (#42563053)
> Originally all third-party software was going to be installed this way.

It's off topic, but I don't think this was true once the HTML Weather and Stocks 'widgets' failed on iOS. Anything Apple said publicly was just saving face until their SDK was ready for public consumption.

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Re:App Should Have Been a Website (and Probably Your Game Too) by reaperducer on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @08:36PM (#42563269)
It was true. I developed iPhone OS web apps during that time.
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