Is Apple stifling progress in Web standards?

Re:Is Apple stifling progress in Web standards? by xyby on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @12:15PM (#9107933)

> apps can replace all but some long-tail usages

Yeah some long-tail usages like everything those 90% of phone and tablet users do that are not on iOS. And 100% of what desktop users do. And 100% of what laptop users do.

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Re:Is Apple stifling progress in Web standards? by kolbe on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @12:54PM (#9108226)

Are you kidding me? 90% of what people do in iOS is in an app. Email (app), chatting (apps), Facebook (app), dating (app), Instagram (app), Twitter (app), news (app), games (apps). I could go on for quite a while until I start to encounter things that aren't in an app (e.g. Hacker News).

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Re:Is Apple stifling progress in Web standards? by sbochins on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @01:01PM (#9108291)

There are some pretty nice HN apps on iOS.

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Re:Is Apple stifling progress in Web standards? by mcintyre1994 on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @03:13PM (#9109226)

To be fair, the actual claim was "Apple's apps can replace all but some long-tail usages." which is blatantly false.

I'm not an iOS user so I might be a little off - but of your list Apple's apps do Email, chatting (for their protocol anyway), maybe they have a news app?

You can do pretty much everything outside the long tail with apps - usually with the better experience (outside of the long tail again) but they're mostly not Apple's apps.

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Re:Is Apple stifling progress in Web standards? by kolbe on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @03:40PM (#9109393)

Read again. I'm not saying that they're Apple's native apps.

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Re:Is Apple stifling progress in Web standards? by xyby on Friday February 27, 2015 @06:32AM (#9118314)

I said nothing about iOS users. I said: Most people don't use iOS.

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