“The backdrop to the biggest app store story nobody is writing about: on pain of steep fines, gatekeepers are opening up to competing browsers. This in turn will enable competitors to replace app stores with directories of Progressive Web Apps. Capable browsers that expose web app installation and powerful features to developers can kickstart app portability, breaking open the mobile duopoly.
But you'd never know it reading Wired or The Verge.”
https://infrequently.org/2024/01/the-web-is-the-app-store/ by @slightlyoff
@sil @slightlyoff because nobody believes Apple and Google will make it easy enough to be popular. Won't even move needle against their entrenched positions. Sadly
@falken @sil @slightlyoff lots of us believe! All of this is a choice. I think the easy explanation is the incentives are unfortunately toxic. Media businesses depend a lot on advertising. No need to extrapolate how talking negatively about Google/Apple duopoly could hurt that.