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Chrome Project 🐡 & Web Standards TL; Blink API OWNER Named PWAs w/ @phae; probably making her ☕ DMs open. Tweets my own; press@google.com for official comms.

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    1. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 5 Jun 2019
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      Pushing past the tactical, developers *frequently* express concern to us that they'll "miss out" on capabilities if they build for the web (vs. native). This is a key driver of short-term decision making in our experience. Folks don't want to be caught flat-footed vs. competition

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      Historically, you could trust the web *not* to expand it's capability footprint. In the comparative lens, this means it's a dead language. You'll never expect it to keep up and deliver what you need to enable the new experiences you will want to deliver. FOMO suppresses interest

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    3. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 5 Jun 2019
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      How do you work against this? A steady string of safe-but-capable expansions that meet clearly-articulated developer needs. And the "steady" part matters. If we pull up the drawbridge at any point and say "no more!", everyone will understand the web can't support them.

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      Now, of course, this is exactly what some vendors have done. Little surprise, then, that tools like Electron have gotten traction in their proverbial backyards.

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    5. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 5 Jun 2019
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      Every metaplatfrom naturally expands to provide capabilities developers need and that is available on *most* hardware and *most* OSes -- or that metaplatform dies.

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      The web is not immune to this effect! If the capabilities that most computers expose continue to march on, but the web does not, developers would be fools to bet on us. We'd let them down eventually if we aren't a good partner.

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      This brings us to adjacency: most apps spend most of their time and code handling events and drawing boxes & text. But that isn't what they *do*. They often do something *adjacent* to text and box drawing that defines what the app "is".

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      Those adjacent things are often disjoint! Adding `getUserMedia()` didn't enable better RSS reading. And so what? It *did* enable whole classes of apps that otherwise wouldn't have been on the web *in general*. And the whole is bigger than the sum of the parts.

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      That follows from the power of links: if you can't link to it, it isn't on the web. And if you can't bring certain classes of apps to the linkable set, then the whole is less powerful *even if most apps never exercise that power*.

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      These are flywheel effects; every app that's outside your platform creates more incentives not to develop on it. Everyone's looking sideways at what "everyone else" does.

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      A further (key) subtelty: most metaplatforms are happy to optimise for the short-term. They tend to build direct pass-throughs to underlying native systems in order to quickly gain market share (see also: Cordova, Electron, etc.). These incidentally tie developers to OSes.

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        2. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 5 Jun 2019
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          That is, they become instantly FOMO-free for the low, low cost of selling platform optionality that doesn't materialize in practice.

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          The web has taken a different path. We fully abstract (to the greatest extent possible) underlying OSes and platforms. It's why we *do* standards at all.

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