A growing concern in the tech community is the gatekeeping of Apple and Google through their respective app stores. Last week Damus, Zeus, and Fold experienced troubles getting app store approvals firsthand, but there are many examples of companies being limited by the policies of Google and Apple in the past.
PWAs are gaining traction as one possible solution, but as long as people continue to use iOS and Android devices, PWAs will have some level of reliance on decisions made by Apple and Google.
This weekend we thought it would be fun to brainstorm some new ideas about how to compete against Apple and Google to bring a third mobile operating system to the masses. A few questions to consider:
- If you were to try and compete with Apple and Google to spin up a viable competitor, how would you approach the challenge?
- What would set your competing mobile phone/OS apart from Apple and Google?
- What role (if any) would Bitcoin play in your competing product?
- What role (if any) would Nostr play in your competing product?