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Hence the "even on Windows".

Christ, you people sure know how to make a problem where there isn't one

Native "even on" Windows, it says.

There are people using Windows at work

Gathered? Where?

If 'mostly' means over 50% you could call this clear.

Otherwise I don't think this is clear at all.

Otherwise, what is mostly?

Mostly at the outset, or at any given time? Must the project move out when it goes from 49% to 51% AI-assisted code?

So 'mostly' is the clearest they get here. Meaning more than 50% of lines of code? At any given time?

This is great

https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail

It's not really that Emoji filled. The screenshot is supposed to've been taken when a click on a heart reaction invoked a little animation.

I don't see anything about 'nailing' the physics either. It's just a design instruction.

[citation needed]

RCE — Remote code execution

Homogenizing the icons is a form style over substance — giving up said advantages to make the whole look 'prettier'.

xOS '27 basically miseducates users into doing that by offering to give the Dock or Home Screen icons of the same color.

[citation needed]

Grok is right there in the app stores alongside ChatGPT and Claude...

since leftists often play dumb

And there goes the merit of your rant

Your comment wasn’t very obvious.

Just a cryptic “do this”

Not to nitpick but I don't think Apple ever literally marketed "it just works". It just does.

we may have just entered the golden age

How so?

Ways to configure 'dependency version cooldowns' into your project with npm, pnpm, yarn:

https://gist.github.com/mcollina/b294a6c39ee700d24073c0e5a4e...

What?

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/stripe-advent-offer...

I believe customization isn't as highly valued by regular people. Just look at your friends' phones and how they haven't usually done anything to customize their experience.

If enough people were hitting that wall in that SaaS you mention, the SaaS would've fixed it. The barrier of starting over with a custom solution, leaving behind a SaaS they've become accustomed to, is an unlikely choice. They'd rather just come up with a convenient workaround, and briefly look at competing products.

Sure. But Jobs was talking about running 'web apps' on iPhone OS as a software distribution channel, pre App Store, 2007-2008.

Push notifications

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Push_API

hence the "your app could have been a webpage" charge

No debate there. I was responding to the ever vague and broad "they want" comments.

Reddit, Twitter/X, Facebook, Instagram, sure.

All examples of first party social media clients.

A minority of native app developers, I'm willing to bet.

Possible reasons:

- No waiting for a page to load

- Home screen access (most don't know about bookmarking web apps)

- Discovery (where do you go to find PWAs?)

- Features (native apps have access to more platform APIs)

- Absence of browser chrome (more immersive UX), though on iOS the chrome can be removed from PWAs once bookmarked, using meta tags

Ad supported apps are not necessarily from ad companies.

The point I'm trying to make that these ever-prevalent 'they just want' remarks are superficial, uninformed, overly broad, and vague, to the point of having no point.

There are many benefits to native apps over web apps on mobile devices, depending on the use case. A conspiracy against the people need not be part of every developer's choice to utilize the native platform and associated app store for distribution.

I know there's lots of horrible companies out there (hi Meta!) who will drive you to their native apps just for performance of ads and 'engagement'. This doesn't justify the conspiracy thinking getting applied to native apps as a whole.

PWAs (progressive web apps) surely existed before React though

The App Store took off because of the distribution channel it offers for developers (including being able to charge for the work) and the place of discovery it offers to users.

What access?

Like the OS native APIs that offer the very utility for these apps to even exist?

Integration with OS features is what made the app ecosystem, because of utility. Project whatever conspiracy on that you want.

Nice and vague. Hard to dispute.

Simple fact is that people love to project evil incentives onto entities they don't even bother defining.

Not every native app developer is a 'massive company' with a 'vested interest' (what does that even mean) in monetizing your attention and data.

Ad companies now. Just one sentence earlier you said it's people 'delivering their payload'.