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		scarface_74 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple's Browser Engine Ban Persists, Even Under th... How will responsive web apps help when most Android users aren’t buying top of the line phones and app makers have to create a native app to get any type of responsiveness? Facebook for instance realized years ago that it would have to make real native apps to get decent performance instead of the app being a web wrapper.

itopaloglu83 9 months ago [–]

I'm all for native apps. And you're right about the performance. PWA would only work for very simple stuff.

The end-goal is to turn Apple into a pure hardware vendor so that they can get direct access to end-users.

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