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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

And so hope and avarice combined to make the web mobile roadkill.

Chrome wasn't even available for Android until 2013, and wasn't default until 2014. Meanwhile, Android created a huge capability/feature gap for native that mirrored iOS.

You literally cannot imagine how painful it was to get PWAs and WebAPKs and TWAs and Web Push and the rest done within Google, despite the heavy pro-web bias outside of Android-land.

/cc @chriscoyier @tomayac