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Apple Handcuffs Web Apps On iPhone Home Screen

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the evil-or-oops dept.

SF Polack writes "On Apple's iOS 4.3, HTML5 and JavaScript apps are running significantly slower when they're run from the iPhone or iPad home screen rather than Safari, and the OS is hindering the performance of these apps in other ways. The end result is that it's harder for web apps to compete with native iOS app sold through the App Store, where Apple takes a 30 per cent of sales."

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  1. walled garden by Surt · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This is what you get in the walled garden. Just don't buy an ios device if that's not what you want. Duh.

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