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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 19 Dec 2019
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      Let me try to answer then! May be a bit of a thread. First, the easy, comforting, and misleading way to look at the numbers is to lump mobile into desktop, e.g. the image you pointed to which comes from this data set:https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share#monthly-200901-201911 …

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    2. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 19 Dec 2019
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      Here's mobile:https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/mobile/worldwide#monthly-200901-201911 …

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    3. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 19 Dec 2019
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      What neither of these views tell you is *how successful the web is*. That is, they show you the slicing of the pie, not how much the pie is growing/shrinking. We have other data sources (which aren't public) the analyze this. And the picture is *terrifying*.

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    4. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 19 Dec 2019
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      On desktop, the web continues to gain ever-more use. More and more use-cases can be handled in the web (thanks to expanded capabilities) and more time is being spent there (as a fraction of time on device). It's the exact opposite on mobile.

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    5. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 19 Dec 2019
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      I went into this in a recent talk: https://vimeo.com/364402896  The mobile web only performs ~adequately for wealthy users. Between that and a decade+ of training users to find experiences in app stores (where the web was excluded; still is on iOS), time spent % is *low and falling*

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    6. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 19 Dec 2019
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      Which brings us back to share. How do we think about it? As a last chance to perhaps turn this around and avert ecosystem collapse. It won't matter who "wins" if the web ceases to be a meaningful part of user's lives.

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    7. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 19 Dec 2019
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      And yes, it's as bad as "ecosystem collapse" sounds.

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    8. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 19 Dec 2019
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      Eventually, if things keep going the way they are, it won't make sense for *anyone* to invest in improving the web. Legacy platforms don't evaporate into this air, of course, but they also stop changing. They stop addressing new needs. They slip out of the relevance loop.

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    9. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 19 Dec 2019
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      Some vendors are already investing in their engines at near-starvation levels; in a last-chance scenario, and with enough share, this may prevent any rescue from succeeding.

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    10. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 19 Dec 2019
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      There are strategic reasons to keep the web in a box if you're a vertically-integrated hw/sw vendor. The web is not a platform you "own", but it's a necessary bridge. The way you accentuate your OS/HW advantages is to move content away from entrypoints you can't lean on heavily.

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      Funding a team to keep the bridge functional and do the occasional OS/HW integration feature (dark mode? svg acceleration? benchmarketing wins to show silicon advantage?) makes sense. But you never, ever want to let that team threaten your app platform leverage. So you starve it.

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        2. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 19 Dec 2019
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          ...and if you can get away with it, you might even put policies in place to prevent competition from ever threatening the proprietary with the open.

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        1. Arthur Stolyar‏ @nekrtemplar 19 Dec 2019
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          This then gets projected on other businesses: They do invest heavily in their native apps and starve mobile web apps on purpose, even though with the same investment it could be even better than native (not on iOS, obviously).

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        2. Jussi Kalliokoski‏ @quinnirill 19 Dec 2019
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          What’s better? A single pseudo-open platform standard that only one vendor can afford to implement and effectively controls by outinvesting everyone else, or multiple competing proprietary platforms? You keep calling Safari the new IE, yet who is doing the embrace&extend here?

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        3. Jussi Kalliokoski‏ @quinnirill 19 Dec 2019
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          And speaking of incentives for investing in a platform you effectively control and where the monetizing goes through you, pot meet kettle.pic.twitter.com/Bzr4HjHF3l

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