Mobile Development on Prasham H Trivedihttps://prashamhtrivedi.in/tags/mobile-development/Recent content in Mobile Development on Prasham H TrivediHugoenWed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000Mobile won the platform war on distribution, not capabilityhttps://prashamhtrivedi.in/mobile-lost-on-distribution/Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/mobile-lost-on-distribution/The narrative says mobile won the platform war and the web lost. For most of the 2010s that was simply correct. The lens that emerged later is the load-bearing one: mobile won on distribution and store lock-in, not on capability, and the deciding axis the whole time was update friction. A platform-war retrospective from someone who shipped Android apps for a decade.