The seasonal news that #WhatsApp will stop working on #iPhone 5 and below #Android 4.3 highlights how the lack of Web apps is a significant environmental problem. Phones become obsolete in part because they don’t get OS updates, and they become incompatible with compiled apps. A lightweight OS for old phones would be more feasible if it mainly had to have a solid Web browser that facilitated a proper selection of #ProgressiveWebApps (& if manufacturers made open drivers/docs). #PWA #PWAs
@mikarv why not on every device? flutter: https://flutter.dev/
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@mikarv pwas‘ / spas’ are (right now) complicated stuff. (service workers, react, angular, javascript). for larger companies no problem but smaller ones often don’t have the capabillities. with the flutter-approach it would be plattform-independent. one to rule them all. one codebasis and it does the complicated things or you.