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> apps can replace all but some long-tail usages

Yeah some long-tail usages like everything those 90% of phone and tablet users do that are not on iOS. And 100% of what desktop users do. And 100% of what laptop users do.



Are you kidding me? 90% of what people do in iOS is in an app. Email (app), chatting (apps), Facebook (app), dating (app), Instagram (app), Twitter (app), news (app), games (apps). I could go on for quite a while until I start to encounter things that aren't in an app (e.g. Hacker News).


There are some pretty nice HN apps on iOS.


To be fair, the actual claim was "Apple's apps can replace all but some long-tail usages." which is blatantly false.

I'm not an iOS user so I might be a little off - but of your list Apple's apps do Email, chatting (for their protocol anyway), maybe they have a news app?

You can do pretty much everything outside the long tail with apps - usually with the better experience (outside of the long tail again) but they're mostly not Apple's apps.


Read again. I'm not saying that they're Apple's native apps.


I said nothing about iOS users. I said: Most people don't use iOS.




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