Debating writing a blog post about why I don't think the Chrome team's approach to the "threat" of native apps is helpful for the web platform… Maybe I should write something uncontroversial at some point… (But why would anyone read what I write about uncontroversial things?)
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If we look only at absolute
#s, we do see growth; holy cow there are a lot of mobile devices! If we look at fraction of time spent on device, the web didn't start high and hasn't grown, particularly amongst phone-only users at the bottom of the income scale. That's ~most people. -
Obviously, a cohort w/o iPhones. Propensity to own iOS devices goes to ~1 as your income hits $100K/yr. Wealthier countries also tend to have desktop anchoring; popular services are available there first and users understand value of the web as a result of desktop use.
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