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Apple has officially announced that they attempting to kill web apps in the EU, which will have ramifications worldwide

Apple has decided to remove Progressive web apps from iOS in EU. If you have a business in the EU or serve EU users via Web App/PWA, we must hear from you in the next 48 hours!

    • bloodfart@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      It’s weird then that Firefox on the desktop doesn’t support them.

      Just think on why that might be. Why both Mozilla and Apple would be opposed to something that Google is in favor of.

      I mean, if pwas are no big deal then surely a platform other than chromium and android combined would be gladly embracing this new technology.

      I’m really not trying to argue from a position of aged authority, but pwas are bad. I know because every time some way to make a webpage just like a program and also escape the browser has come up it’s been bad.

      And when you look at it as a power struggle between big corporations pwas are being pushed by Google, the bad one.

      I know that’s not convincing so let me ask you this: what would be? What would convince you that despite Apple being your enemy, pwas are bad?

        • bloodfart@lemmy.ml
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          1 year ago

          It’s interesting that I’m not supposed to infer the Mozilla groups stance on pwas, but also not supposed to believe what Apple has directly stated.

          I mean, the only thing Apple is preventing is the installation of pwas directly to the desktop, notifications and the use of persistent cache past a week, right?

          You can still do a link on the desktop to an online pwa just like a link to some website.

          And that’s only if the pwa is t distributed through their app store. Afaik if the developer goes through that channel of distribution they get to store data persistently (this is the running offline everyone’s up in arms about), use notifications, etc.

          Personally I hate pwas and hope they go away, but even if you like them, surely these small constraints which are in line with other platforms won’t be a problem.

          I don’t see any reason not to believe what apple says about needing to be safe with other browser engines since they gotta allow them in the eu. I mean, let’s give a real uncharitable look at ios security: maybe the vaunted secure platform is filled with undocumented flaws covered up by heavy integration between the rendering engine and the os. Maybe ios + safari sucks and they need to cover up as much of it as possible so the new browser engines don’t expose users to security vulnerabilities.

          Am I missing something here?