
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The last point is really insidious: Apple and the Android team really, *really* wanted to keep the web from disrupting the cozy mobile duopoly, and through interlocking and reinforcing moats have made it nearly impossible for the web to break out and challenge the app store and native frameworks.
This is working-as-intended. Apple's attempt to kill PWAs earlier this year showed intent, and the fallback position they've taken since (that they don't have to open them up) is indefensible.