Personally I think remote access is a great policy barrier for separating information access from code execution. I usually want to access information from a remote site while explicitly not running code they send me. Intertwining those via mobile code is imo a mistake.
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Main thing I’m objecting to (which you’re rightly pointing out happens on non-web / app store platforms too) is someone installing client software in order to provide an information service. And that viewing JS+DOM as good because they enable that more smoothly is .. backwards.
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Sounds like Android :-P.
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Right! My opinion: The Web is the worst popular UI platform out there, except for all the others. (Maybe with the exception of Cocoa/Cocoa Touch with Swift, but that’s wedded to Apple so can’t be an industry wide solution.)
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Apple followed the model you suggest with iTunes, and look at what a disaster it turned out to be.
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