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simonw on Dec 14, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apps are too much like 1990's CD-ROMs and not enou...

Most interesting apps on my iPhone spend most of their time talking to web APIs, so that's a bit of a moot point.

Plus, for the client-side of things view source is a lot easier than decompiling a binary.

wslh on Dec 14, 2011 [–]

Moot point? If the APIs change your applications turn unusable. Look at what Twitter did with third party UI applications.

You are only one case. Can you summarize all the application that you use everyday for work? are they native or web applications?

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