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Comment by wayneftw | Hacker News Reader

That's just a lack of imagination.

Apple's app store grip prevents whole industries from taking shape.

If I pick up my Motorola I'll see that I can't even have an adblock for the default browser. And yet very soon my iPhone will receive an update that adds generic extensions support into safari. There's an extension that automatically changes amp links to real pages for example.

Android is open as it gets and yet somehow the diversity of software there is lacking. Try finding decent email client that is not Gmail and doesn't suck your data into cloud. iPhone has got multiple and one is OOB.

Nobody scales an app business just on Android. When you have to target both, you'll follow Apples rules.

Where are my PWA notifications on iPhone? Where is my replacement app launcher? Where are my programming apps? Where are my porn apps?

So you claim that it is lack of imagination that I don't want to install porn apps and receive notification spam from every website on the internet?

Also I don't see how can innovation be equated with support of PWA notifications and porn apps and launchers?

Yeah, because we're only talking about what you want not the general you.

> That's just a lack of imagination.

> Apple's app store grip prevents whole industries from taking shape.

If you can’t launch industries on Android or PC, maybe that’s just a lack of imagination.

Incorrect. That would be hindered by a lack of access to the majority of customers who are on an iPhone in the US.

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