On: Native Client is Widely Misunderstood (2011)

[gress]

I don't think Google cares about it as a web standard. They just want to deploy it widely through chrome, ChromeOS, and chrome on Android (eventually), and use it as a Trojan horse for their own binary applications and OS components.

[ryanackley → gress]

I don't follow the trojan horse logic since they already have the unfettered ability to ship any binary component they want to the platforms you list without using Native Client.

[gress → ryanackley]

The Trojan horse logic is about being able to ship binary apps to those platforms within chrome without having to build everything in.

[tootie → gress]

I'm guessing Apple will cockblock them from ever deploying this to iOS. In that regard, asm.js is far more likely to see adoption.

[gress → tootie]

You're right that Apple won't allow that on iOS, but I don't think they care. This is about them establishing a new platform to displace Android and the open web.