I just watched this vid about native app development is in big trouble
I mean I'm no dev and a lot of the information is quite technical, but basically it's saying that apps from ios and Google are becoming sluggish to use because companies now just design a website and wrap that somehow and then they are able to make it fit ios google and windows mac etc
So, apparently devs used to write the code individually for each platform
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which kept the whole project cleaner and more streamlined
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but that means writing 4 or 5 different projects
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whereas the almighty Zuck is saying, fuck that, just spin up a website and we'll throw it into a one size fits all wrapper
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and then ios google windows mac can just add there branches to make it work
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And the devs are saying 'well hang on, this is going to use a butt ton of memory and make the whole app slower?'
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And the money guys are saying 'well, that's business, this is a faster way of getting the apps out to all the platforms'
And once Meta sets this as their standard, it's likely that others will follow
Also we know Google announced that soon every APK (even zapstore ones) must come from a 'verified developer' or google will send scary warnings and eventually block the ability to install on android phones, not sure about apple, im sure that's another minefield
And then...
It got me thinking about stacker news this works brilliantly as a PWA, (I'm assuming that is what this is) with no app store needed, the ui ux is amazing and the rendering is quite brilliant
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like utube vids are automatically rendered
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nostr notes
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loading images and videos auto converts to a sn file
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and obviously the Ln integration with it's own built in wallet and cc's
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and not to forget Ln login, that's so slick!
Also i did read that google have backed down slightly on this after a backlash from devs i believe, some sort of allowance for 'advanced' devs to bypass....for now
Was building a first class PWA as SN a deliberate long term bet against potential platform lock downs, knowing that google/apple might tighten the screws one day, or did it just happen to be the fastest way to build it?
If google does shut the gates in the future, are we stackers glad to know we can still log in to SN regardless of the big boys throwing their toys 🧸 out the pram?
