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> Mobile browsers do not support the File System Access API

Unfortunately Safari on Desktop also doesn't support the File System Access API. Ditto for WebUSB, WebBluetooth, WebMIDI, etc. Whole classes of "desktop-lite" web apps that can only be shipped on Chrome.

It's kind of a hard sell to ship a web app that just doesn't work for normal users who bought a MacBook.

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For me it makes sense when you start to see Chrome as an OS. Developers use Chrome specific API, which means the apps are not web apps, but Chrome apps (and the developers Chrome developers). Sure the Chrome (OS) is cross platform so it’s a great platform to develop your app. But it’s a little bit unfair (unless you consider that Google = the Web, which may be the reality I refuse to see).

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