Several replies to this thread are variants of "the web has too much tracking and ads. As a user I'd rather have a native app." That sounds silly, since a native app, even on iOS, can track you in all the ways a website can, plus all the ways that don't have Web APIs. However ...
Alex Russell @slightlylate
3 Nov 2019
There seems to be confusion about how, exactly, Apple keeps the web second-class on iOS. Understandable! It's the interplay of several interlocking effects. Let's examine them (thread).
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I think some of them were also saying "the web has too much tracking and ads. As a user, I'd rather use a browser that tries to stop those things, and that's more important to me than a bunch of features that try to achieve native-app parity for the web platform."
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Do you think those replies believe that missing APIs *won't* cause apps to flee the web, or have they just not thought it through?
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I think people may have different impressions and actual behavior as far as portion of time spent in: - native apps that need APIs that aren't on the web - native apps that could be on the web (no key missing APIs) - using the web. Pressure between these comes from apps & users.
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Replying to @davidbaron @jyasskin
I think people are increasingly aware that both native apps and the web have advertising and tracking. If users can have confidence that the web has less tracking, that could give *users* a reason to apply pressure ("no, I won't install your app") to move to web.

Nov 4, 2019 · 11:25 PM UTC
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