That's on browser (/cc @__apf__ @alexainslie) for failing to make app discovery A Thing (TM) in their product.
What we can do from the platform side is to make the world safe for a time when they get there. And we're doing it!
Again, nothing in platform is a one-turn game.
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Replying to @slightlylate @Paul_Kinlan and
But won't that only make it A Thing (TM) on one platform? The web is awesome on Android. It's atrocious on iOS. I (person who wants the web to win) don't even use the web on iOS. The cost to my blood pressure is too high. The web's greatest strengths are its biggest weakness.
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Replying to @davidbrunelle @Paul_Kinlan and
Nothing here is a one-turn game. "This isn't perfect" is the litteral enemy of what can help us move through the strategic space in a way that goes where they ain't. Case in point: what do you think the fraction of iOS devices is in growth markets?
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Replying to @slightlylate @Paul_Kinlan and
"Growth markets" aren't my target. So can't help you there. Is your perspective that the web is staking its future to those markets and that declining investment in established markets is an acceptable tradeoff?
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Most businesses don't want to maintain 3 versions. Doesn't matter where in the world you are, not having the burden of 2 native apps teams plus a web team is a win. 3 -> 2 is a win, no matter how you cut it.
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You just made a case for building all our products with React Native. Not necessarily distributing an experience via the web.
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RN is a similar value prop, although it has seen...challenges... https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/sunsetting-react-native-1868ba28e30a … Regardless, web developers aren't going to win this argument for very long until/unless Apple's blatantly anti-web stance is changed somehow.
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And that is something that I completely agree with you on. I'd argue the web experience on iOS (and bad UX, in general) is doing more to kill the web than JavaScript. Though I don't doubt that performance issues are *a* problem.
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It's doubly bad because iOS is paired to the most powerful hardware, hiding the next-longest-tent-pole of terrrrrrible perf from developers, keeping them from competing when they *do* get to green fields.
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Worst browser combined with the best hardware
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Gotta throw in a little "suppressing browser diversity" there to *really* get the flavour for how bad it is. Apple's got a lot to answer for.
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Replying to @slightlylate @Paul_Kinlan and
I can't think of anything that would incentivize them to actually answer for *anything* as it relates to the web. And that sucks.
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