The Web as a platform lost on mobile. We can help parts of it remain relevant. Especially JavaScript
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Less glib: you didn't just need to ship, you needed to ship a new vision for a platform. The shortcuts muddied the waters until nobody could see the vision, and, all else equal, nobody wants more platforms to support.
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People don’t build apps for a vision. They build it for users. We tried to get them. Were canceled before we could.
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People absolutely do build apps for a vision. I'm shocked to hear you say this.
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We tried vision. Didn’t work. People build for reach not to feel good. Hard to blame them
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Vision is not about "feel good". It's about convincing people that you have a reason to exist that justifies the pain of another thing, and convincing them you'll stick around long enough to see it through.
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In this case, big apps couldn't help but see FFOS as a crappier Windows Phone. Another platform to support with painful restrictions and nothing to justify the extra work. As a developer, I was praying for these platforms to die.
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Well they all did
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Yep. What you needed was fewer devs hoping for failure, and "we worked kind of fast to get a subset of native features working poorly on slow phones" didn't do that. I have no idea if the PWA vision would have fared better, but the pitch wouldn't have given me (a dev) the shakes
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