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You’re replying to me here suggesting that they don’t cripple the web by providing an example of another proprietary thing that they control and has zero interoperability with any other devices.

I don’t know what to do with that argument other than to use that exact same set of facts to support my own point.

Also, that’s a nice historical fact that Steve Jobs once did a demo on stage years ago but my point was that nobody knows how to do it in real life or that it’s possible.

I’m explicitly making the argument that this isn’t a coincidence but is very much on purpose.



So you are saying they are crippling the web because they don't allow websites to add themselves to your home screen through a button on the page. OK. I'll cede this is to drive people to the App Store where they can get their cut.


I just want to be clear here that when I made that claim it was in no way just because of that but was a decade of actions (or largely inaction) where they made sure that the web platform would be missing lots of functionality that app developers would require to consider the web as a viable option for their software business.




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