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0 pointspjmlp8y ago0 comments

Google is a schizophrenic company.

Just watch a few Google I/O tracks, and there is always the future of mobile apps is Android on the Android tracks, while the Chrome/Web tracks are pushing for the future of mobile apps is Web, with an occasional jab at native devs, as if on the room next door they weren't talking about native development.

Then to make it even better, now we have Flutter as the third track.

While PWAs are slowly being adopted by everyone else, Google is the company pushing them.

They even have a Web Site just for PWAs, https://developers.google.com/web/progressive-web-apps/, so yeah politics.

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milesward8y ago· 1 in thread

...or there are just many different ways to solve for the massive variety of problems, and developers with a huge variety of backgrounds, and Google is trying to help them all? p.s. I am a Googler

pjmlpOP8y ago

Which is understandable.

What isn't so understandable is having a speech as if on the next door employees of the same company weren't exactly speaking the opposite.

I don't understand how in stage A one can speak how glorious the future of native apps is going to be, while on Stage B we are hearing how web apps are going to win the war against native apps and PWA are the path to it.

Apocryphon8y ago

Perhaps their product mismanagement style alone is enough of an indictment for Google to be broken up into smaller companies.

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