Ask HN: Why don’t companies build a browser app to get around Apple 30%

1 points by kristo 3y ago ↗ HN

Companies like Spotify, Twitter and others could get together and build a browser app that provides Native API access using Capacitor JS. They let their own apps be deployed with it. No need to pay the Apple Tax because it’s a browser, just like Chrome.

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Ro_Khameshra 3y ago ↗

I think the biggest blocker is the distribution cost of it, the unit economics may not match the thought to build it themselves

kristo 3y ago ↗

Curious what you mean? Like the cost to build the app itself?

austin-cheney 3y ago ↗

I wasn’t aware of capacitorjs.

https://capacitorjs.com/

I will look at using that as a means to bring my Node based OS to IPhone and then problem solved.

https://github.com/prettydiff/share-file-systems