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Looking at you Ionic, Tauri, ... (lemmy.kde.social)

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Steve Jobs in 2007:

The full Safari engine is inside of iPhone. And so, you can write amazing Web 2.0 and Ajax apps that look exactly and behave exactly like apps on the iPhone. And these apps can integrate perfectly with iPhone services. They can make a call, they can send an email, they can look up a location on Google Maps.

And guess what? There’s no SDK that you need! You’ve got everything you need if you know how to write apps using the most modern web standards to write amazing apps for the iPhone today. So developers, we think we’ve got a very sweet story for you. You can begin building your iPhone apps today.

Admit it, the man was a visionary... XDDDDD

Just in case: /s

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He was late to the party. Everyone by that time was trying to make applications and web development converge. Mozilla had an entire framework derived from the web.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

By the year, I think this was before there was even an App Store (first generation iPhone was launched at the end of June, 2007). Jobs really believed in web apps, but the original iPhone had no power to handle them correctly, and a lot of the APIs that we have now were unthinkable at the time. I was just trying to be funny, really. :P

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jobs, whether or not he truly believed in that, gave the potential of web apps and HTML5 as the reason an App Store wasn't needed. And definitely the reason Flash wasn’t needed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Exactly.