Bad side effect (for Apple and the platform) of Apples install tax.
This will encourage Electron, react native and other web based dev tools which can get setup to be server powered/can be updated without involving a reinstall.
@witewulf@iKyle I’m surprised PWAs aren’t a bigger thing, TBH. Perhaps they’re too hard to monetise for the average dev. Interesting Microsoft went that way for Xbox though. (And it does work.)
If you basically just ship a web app wrapper and can manage to get users to install the app only once & then never have to update the app for you to change it then you can dodge Apple's app install tax for your existing users updating the app.
People talk about a "technology fee" to pay Apple for access to all the frameworks and technology in iOS.
But one of the Mac's big challenges is that Mac Apps nowadays don't use Apples technology and Frameworks.
Instead everything is just a web app running in a Chrome window.
Which means when Apple releases some new technology or framework; and they want everyone to use it..... Mac App's mostly don't.
Taxing, and so discouraging developers from using, Apple's tech stack will just push them onto the web tech stack further, and so damage iOS and their platform advantage.
In the same way everything being an Electron app damages the Mac ecosystem and Apple's ability to meaningfully move it in new directions.
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