> This is simply false, there are plenty of complex apps with varying degrees of usefulness but they certanly don't reduce to 80's game clones and few screen apps. And even if it was true it's not a result of anything intrinsic to the app model.
If I am writing "mostly", I mean "mostly" and if you refute "mostly" with "there are plenty of" you are missing even the basic tenure of a sane discussion. Check the top 100 apps in app stores/markets, and you will see how wonderful those sandboxed apps, you and ingo show us as examples of success. They are "mostly" my-web-page-as-an-app-now hype.
You miss Ingo's point, if you don't read his paragraphs, and carefully read that he compares Android/iOS core and apps to 20+ years of Linux kernel /desktop and software from various architectures, programming languages and technologies. He even claims their core is stable missing the point how young they are. The proud iOS core cannot go for more than few devices and the number of deficiencies/issues people had there are also interestingly high.
Finally, and if you really are doing all those compilations to get the latest version of a software, you might consider better considering your options of distro and package manager. Clearly you are doing something wrong there; and if you please mention what you compile on which distro and version Someone may able to understand what you are trying to achieve, and tell you what you should do instead.
If I am writing "mostly", I mean "mostly" and if you refute "mostly" with "there are plenty of" you are missing even the basic tenure of a sane discussion. Check the top 100 apps in app stores/markets, and you will see how wonderful those sandboxed apps, you and ingo show us as examples of success. They are "mostly" my-web-page-as-an-app-now hype.
You miss Ingo's point, if you don't read his paragraphs, and carefully read that he compares Android/iOS core and apps to 20+ years of Linux kernel /desktop and software from various architectures, programming languages and technologies. He even claims their core is stable missing the point how young they are. The proud iOS core cannot go for more than few devices and the number of deficiencies/issues people had there are also interestingly high.
Finally, and if you really are doing all those compilations to get the latest version of a software, you might consider better considering your options of distro and package manager. Clearly you are doing something wrong there; and if you please mention what you compile on which distro and version Someone may able to understand what you are trying to achieve, and tell you what you should do instead.