"Leaked video shows Googleās vision for Android-based feature phones and apps" by Kyle Bradshaw https://9to5google.com/2019/09/20/analysis-leaked-video-android-feature-phone-nokia/
Who wants to bet that the apps will be web-based?
- Doesn't run Google Play Store
- Google Maps Go is a PWA
- Proxx is a PWA
- KaiOS is web-based
@nolan Interesting, so presumably this depends on big coās making āliteā versions of their apps/sites available? Facebook for instance, I remember they have such a thing. Thereās the plain HTML version of Gmail as well.
I see Google has invested; makes sense given the size of the market.
https://www.kaiostech.com/meet-the-apps-available-on-kaios/
I do wonder what that version of Google Maps is like, even the native Android app is enough to cause my phone to stutter.
@ondra Awww, that link bounces to regular Google Maps in Safari on my iPad š¢
@hjst That's exactly why platforms like KaiOS are so amazing. The default assumption is that the mobile web is "slow." But clearly it's possible to build mobile webapps and browsers that run well on feature phones, or else KaiOS wouldn't have millions of users.