Similarly, it is using internal functions to map mach ports onto file descriptors because their cross-platform bits do not understand mach ports.
How are Firefox and Chrome not competitive given that Safari isn't the overwhelmingly dominant browser ?
https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2019/10/22/dramatically-red...
Before using those private APIs, with no other options to reach the same performance as Safari, both Chrome and Firefox were in a completely different league.
Your own article says that Firefox only recently started using them.
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2019/11/04/electron-apps-rejected-fr...
So you’re basically just talking out your ass, saying that Apple should open up APIs that have always been private for the sole purpose of helping a competitor who knowingly adopted them in violation of platform rules.
“Yes, officer, I broke the law. But I think, now that I’ve broken it, you should just abolish the particular laws that I broke because some people think I’m a big deal.”
Spotify and co will care more of getting into that 30% of the mobile market (and the more lucrative 30% at that) by doing whatever they can, than Apple would worry about them leaving because no Electron is allowed...
The worst case scenario is that apple loses some revenue and major players avoid the mac app store for desktop apps.
Apple who gets most of their money from mobile will not care. App developers will lose some convenience but negligible money and they wont care.
Since they need to have them there, and don't use Electron there already, they can have them in macOS without it trivially.
I personally don’t care. In fact I grow tired of the throw everything in a webview cause we’re lazy mentality. Build a proper app that looks like it’s a mac app. Also I grow tired of the crap performance these “apps” have. I say remove the lot of them and force people to build a proper app. Electron is Flash 2.0
* I understand the prviate API was about reducing power-consumption.
* Apple sells itself on superior battery-life compared to Windows laptops.
* Unfortunately, the Electron ecosystem is too big to dismiss - there's a lot of software using it that could potentially pull customers away from Apple's App Store if they weren't allowed back-in.
* Despite the fact most of those apps are nominally free (Slack, Skype, etc), if they weren't available in the Mac App Store it would mean users would stop seeing the Mac App Store as the place to go for Mac software - thus damaging the brand.
In short: if Apple doesn't document this power-management API and make it public then significantly fewer _important_ apps will be available in their Store which is bad for Apple's current long-term vision. If these apps do modify themseles to not use the battery-life API then they'll reduce the computer's battery life which then makes Apple look bad.