> He “backtracked” because his “sweet solution” wasn’t good and everyone wanted native apps and web apps were called “a shit sandwich” by developers.
Sure, the 30% cut of all sales was just a sweet coincidence.
> You mean making an app that’s actually performant on the majority of phones out there?
Twitter and Uber have PWAs for countries where low-end devices are the majority of phones.
> They have never been good enough.
Complete bollocks, there are plenty of excellent web apps out there, and it's one of the most important mechanisms for software delivery nowadays, in both the enterprise and consumer spaces. You are a fundamentalist and there is no point discussing anything here anymore
Were you around back then when developers were clamoring for native apps? It came out in the Epic trial that 80% of all app revenue came from games with in app purchases.
Besides that, most of the biggest players like Netflix and Spotify don’t even allow in app purchases.
Where are all of the great web apps for mobile? Have you tried using any of these web apps on Firefox for Android or is Firefox also involved in the conspiracy?
No one is clamoring for cross platform web apps accept web developers who want to foster a shitty Electron like experience on mobile.
And look at all of the server side work that Uber had to do.
And this wasn’t done to avoid the “30% tax” since Uber doesn’t use in app purchases. You do have Apple Pay as an option. But that’s a standard credit card transaction.
Sure, the 30% cut of all sales was just a sweet coincidence.
> You mean making an app that’s actually performant on the majority of phones out there?
Twitter and Uber have PWAs for countries where low-end devices are the majority of phones.
> They have never been good enough.
Complete bollocks, there are plenty of excellent web apps out there, and it's one of the most important mechanisms for software delivery nowadays, in both the enterprise and consumer spaces. You are a fundamentalist and there is no point discussing anything here anymore