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A comment on Apple WWDC Keynote.

Re:Apple WWDC Keynote by sktrdie on Monday June 22, 2020 @05:08PM (#23606675)
App Clips seem yet another lock-in solution. They want devs to go through the app store so they get full control and revenue access.

Instead of downloading a 10mb App Clip you just go to a url that uses some standards to login/access-payments. Done.

What more do App Clips do that couldn't be done in a much more interoperable and standardized way?

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Re:Apple WWDC Keynote by r29vzg2 on Monday June 22, 2020 @10:22PM (#23609329)
You have a point but it’s pretty clear that most companies don’t care about PWAs and the ones that have PWAs they treat as a funnel to their App Store application. It’s pretty clear that the industry doesn’t want PWAs, it wants easier ways to get users to install their native application. This is a pretty decent solution.
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