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Re:Pavel Durov wants a law to make Apple allow iPhone users ... by dreen on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @10:51AM (#23845972)
They have recently announced they wouldn't support many of the APIs needed/useful for PWAs

edit: I was a wrong in thinking they severely limited PWAs, they still allow Service Workers although with a 7-Day Cap on All Script-Writeable Storage. Not as bad as I thought.

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Re:Pavel Durov wants a law to make Apple allow iPhone users ... by rgovostes on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @11:15AM (#23846363)
These are the APIs they declined to implement: https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-declined-to-implement-16...

Most of them involve access to peripherals (USB, Serial, HID, NFC, Bluetooth, MIDI), sensors (magnetometer, proximity, ambient light), and device state (battery status, memory pressure, network information).

Several of these are not even available to native applications on iOS.

Yes there are categories of apps that require a few of these, but certainly the majority do not require any.

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Re:Pavel Durov wants a law to make Apple allow iPhone users ... by dreen on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @11:08AM (#23846244)
Why downvote? I would be happy to be wrong
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Re:Pavel Durov wants a law to make Apple allow iPhone users ... by pwinnski on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @11:19AM (#23846438)
I didn't downvote, but probably because of "needed/useful for PWAs," which seems to be incorrect.
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