"Apple made a fateful decision that mobile-phone internet should be app-centric, not browser/website centric. Then Android copied their mistake."
Many interesting things in this article, but this is one particular gripe I have about today's Internet. I will go to so much unnecessary trouble just to avoid using somebody's app.
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Don't Lie To Me About Web 2.0
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Mikołaj Hołysz
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in reply to Mikołaj Hołysz • • •@miki Apple didn’t release (or, one might say *they withheld*) browser APIs that we needed to make useful web apps. It’s better now, but there is still too much friction. Apple and the App Store won, users and developers lost.
I agree with everything in the article. 💯
ticho
in reply to Quinn Comendant • • •@com @miki Well, the initial mistake was when all the greedy consumer ISPs caused the Internet to go from IP (the protocol) -centric to Web-centric, effectively blocking all other protocols and services.
From that point, did it really matter whether it is web browsers or bespoke apps that dominate? Everything has to be shoehorned into TCP streams formatted as HTTP traffic, regardless of whether it is effective or not. We the users have already lost and have a subpar experience.
Mikołaj Hołysz
in reply to ticho • • •@ticho @com I think the mistake doesn't just lay with "greedy consumer ISPs", a lot of it was caused by opening up the internet to bad actors, the exhaustion of IPV4 space, an increased focus on privacy and the move to portable, battery-powered devices.
End-to-end connectivity with no firewall is the opposite of what users want because of security, static IPs are bad for privacy and impossible when people constantly switch between WiFi and cellular, and it's a terrible idea to allow unrestricted connectivity if you care about battery life.
ticho
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