Comment Re:Rosalind Franklin discovered it (Score 1) 57
Clearly your point was correct since it was named after Mr Dna and not Watson, Crick or Franklin.
It came out that Facebook made 16 billion Off of the most scammiest of scam advertisements on their site
Interesting. Is there a source for this? Do you know which ad it was?
Bankers have nothing to do with it,
How to say you know nothing about Silicon Valley without saying you know nothing about Silicon Valley.
"Thank you, Silicon Valley! Yet again, you've fucked up the world."
It wasn't Silicon Valley that fucked things up, Silicon Valley just builds stuff. It was the New York bankers who come and try to squeeze the maximum profit out of everything, even at the cost of quality (or anything else).
That is when things get enshittified.
I was expecting someone who has used the product to help others in this discussion understand why Grab probably chose and continues to choose to develop iOS apps instead of PWAs. The answers might have taken the form:
A. PWAs weren't capable enough 12 years ago for X, Y, and Z reasons, are now, and the engineering resources to port the native app to a web app would exceed the cost of acquiring and maintaining Macs capable of running the latest macOS
B. PWAs still aren't capable for X, Y, and Z reasons
The right decision would be for a news site and storefront to have platform-agnostic web sites, not applications you have to install.
And the right decision would be for phone operating system publishers to provide functionality in the included web browser to let a website act as a progressive web application. Safari for iOS has a history of lagging behind other platforms' browsers in PWA features.[1] This is particularly evident with respect to what the browser allows websites to do in the background. For example, Apple implemented Push API seven years after Mozilla did, and it requires the user to add the website to the home screen to enable PWA features.[2] Do you want Nintendo Music to pause when you switch to another application? Or if you've chosen to let Nintendo's website notify you when something becomes available, do you want to miss the notification if Safari suddenly decides that your domain's notifications shall be silent (without vibration, without sound, and at the bottom of the list)?
[1] "Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied" by Alex Russell
[2] "Push API" on Can I use...
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