> Steve Jobs also preferred PWAs and hated the app store.
Steve Jobs died in 2011. None of the apis that make a PWA had been developed by then. How can you know what he preferred or hated?
Steve Jobs died in 2011. None of the apis that make a PWA had been developed by then. How can you know what he preferred or hated?
So apple has killed both Flash and (useful) web standards and we are left with unnecessary, gate-keeping, expensive, price gauging App Stores. Hypocrisy at its finest. But at least it's got an Apple on it, so I guess it's fine
It used to be possible to "grow" stuff online. People made a living from developing Flash games (and websites). Aggregators competed and paid well for content. It's now all going to Apple's shareholders and Wall Street, and it's a complete waste of time to develop anything that needs publishing via the App Store. What a sad state of affairs
Whether Steve hated the App Store I do not know, but it was not in his original vision for the iPhone.
Or maybe they knew things like the ipaq had third-party software, and they didn't have time to add such capabilities in time for launch, so they only encouraged PWAs as an interim measure.