> It just means over time you'll lose Android users as they get fed up with the huge speed disparity (if they care, or notice) but you'll retain and grow iOS users.
> If Apple's overall market share keeps increasing, this wouldn't necessarily be a bad strategy. Not my favorite, and not really in harmony with the original vision for Discourse, but I'm limited in what we can do with the resources that we have. We can't build two distinct applications (web, for iOS, and native, for Android) without destroying the company in the process.
>It could also be that over a long time scale (e.g. five years out) Android will fix this. But it clearly will not be fixed in a year or two.
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[ 0.20 ms ] story [ 19.0 ms ] thread> If Apple's overall market share keeps increasing, this wouldn't necessarily be a bad strategy. Not my favorite, and not really in harmony with the original vision for Discourse, but I'm limited in what we can do with the resources that we have. We can't build two distinct applications (web, for iOS, and native, for Android) without destroying the company in the process.
>It could also be that over a long time scale (e.g. five years out) Android will fix this. But it clearly will not be fixed in a year or two.
Sigh. I wonder if Android M has been benched.
Really buried the lede there.