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0 pointsechelon5y ago0 comments

These are bolted on hacks and don't have the combined support of Apple and Google.

Nevermind the fact that this doesn't solve monopoly of distribution.

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coldtea5y ago· 2 in thread

>These are bolted on hacks and don't have the combined support of Apple and Google.

If you don't like "bolted on hacks" you'd like Web APIs and HTML as an application development platform even less...

echelonOP5y ago

You just insulted the platform of an entire swath of developers. I'll take it you didn't intend to attack their work, because it sounded kind of close to that.

You're taking a very narrow point of view.

The web is the last free thing we have that keeps us from being eternally bound to rent seekers. You shouldn't attack it. You should be grateful for it.

It's because of things like the web and open source we have an incredibly vibrant industry where it's easy to get started from nothing. In the limit, if Apple and Google expressed complete and total control, we'd all just be employees and own none of it.

coldtea5y ago

>The web is the last free thing we have that keeps us from being eternally bound to rent seekers.

On the contrary, ever since the web got hot, all we've had is rent seekers...

Everything is now a SaaS, closed code behind closed servers, and on the web everything major people would want to use (from Gmail to Basecamp, and from Notion to Slack), is either ad-supported (yuck) or requires a paid subscription.

I'd rather have the old native apps of yore: mine, forever after I paid for them (plus a freeware ecosystem, plus shareware, plus FOSS).

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