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The Everything Open Always Everywhere Fetishists posit a world where web apps are MIRACULOUSLY PERFORMANT because they bring their own rendering engines and runtimes and finally, FINALLY show Apple how the web and indeed SOFTWARE ITSELF is supposed to be done

somehow ignoring the fact that we've already seen this movie on the Mac via Electron and the tradeoff for write once, run anywhere apps is that they kind of suck ass

no one loves them, they're just kind of tolerated

tech dorks over-generalize their values and priorities, but the people who have even a modicum of opinion about how this stuff works exist in single digit percentage points with really limited capacity for influence (see: Masto's cultural ceiling)

Overall people keep giving Apple money because people really like what Apple gives them, and they're not doing much analysis beyond that

anyway, however it shakes out, I do love to see the EU exercising its counterpower

Keep regulating Silicon Valley. Someone has to.

Two regulations I hope they pass by 2030:

- If you stop supporting the device you gotta open it WIDE

- If your device includes a battery, it must be user replaceable with a tool you include in the box

@danilo I'd also be in favor of a practice, enshrined in law, where if a piece of technology is discontinued, it would enter into a conservatorship after a period of time and made open - source code, documentation, cad models, etc.