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fiatjaf · 169w
Writing web apps is the same as living in a pod.
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That's a good point, I hadn't thought of it quite that way.

As a web app developer I usually look at it from the perspective that making my app available at a URL makes it very easy for other's to access.

A lot of people (including me) are afraid of installing untrusted software on their bare metal machines from strangers, and browsers overcome that by being, well, a pod.

But I see why people like to develop for iOS or Android and I use some of the Android stuff. I feel left out of the iOS stuff because I'm not an Apple guy anymore. The web pod stuff is available to everyone.
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hazeycode · 169w
Mobile OSs have sandboxed app environments. The fear of installing non “bare metal machines” originates in desktop operating systems. Which are all fucking trash and need a rethink but just nobody has gone and put in the work to make a modern desktop OS that addresses this. We need to define an ...