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JimDabell 4 days ago

> Probably, mobile operating systems would work more like macOS where apps can be installed directly from websites

There’s no reason to speculate on this. We already saw Apple’s vision for an iPhone without an App Store.

When the iPhone was first launched, Apple said that if you wanted to build an app for the iPhone, you should build a web app. People hated that, so Apple launched the App Store.

qcnguy 4 days ago | parent [-]

Don't conflate APIs with distribution.

Devs love web-style distribution. App Stores can be convenient for discovery, but that only matters for a limited number of apps.

What they didn't love was being forced into the JS/DOM straitjacket when Apple were building much higher quality APIs and implementations for native apps.

The combination of web-style distribution, an App Gallery for discovery, and still having the ability to use UIKit, would have been very popular.