Show HN: Appleshouter – iOS Push Notifications for PWAs and Web apps

Re:Show HN: Appleshouter – iOS Push Notifications for PWAs a... by floatingatoll on Friday April 30, 2021 @01:28AM (#26990086)

This is great for personal code, but anyone who tries deploying this to a wide audience on the App Store is risking a permanent ban by Apple.

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Re:Show HN: Appleshouter – iOS Push Notifications for PWAs a... by ykat7 on Friday April 30, 2021 @07:41AM (#26992155)

App Store Guidelines [1] wouldn't apply here since this is for web apps opened in Safari. If anything, it'd be language in the Developer License Agreement that might cover this.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/

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Re:Show HN: Appleshouter – iOS Push Notifications for PWAs a... by FireBeyond on Friday April 30, 2021 @07:00PM (#27000645)

Web apps opened in Safari.

So if I build a web app on my own dime, on my own hosting resources, signing no developer agreements with Apple whatsoever...

... there's not a remote chance that I'm subject to any of Apple's whims, and there's very little they can do about it.

Add my site to a Safari exclusions list? That will and should go down like a flaming mess.

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Re:Show HN: Appleshouter – iOS Push Notifications for PWAs a... by ficklepickle on Friday April 30, 2021 @08:18PM (#27001435)

The first requirement is: An Apple Developer Program account. Presumably for creating the "passes".

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Re:Show HN: Appleshouter – iOS Push Notifications for PWAs a... by chrisweekly on Friday April 30, 2021 @07:18AM (#26992009)

Huh? This is for webapps / PWAs, not native iOS apps.

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Re:Show HN: Appleshouter – iOS Push Notifications for PWAs a... by ruperp on Friday April 30, 2021 @10:15AM (#26993740)

From the Github: "What you will need: An Apple Developer Program account".

That means you can easily be banned for abusing their wallet apis, and they'll probably also take down your other apps on that account.

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Re:Show HN: Appleshouter – iOS Push Notifications for PWAs a... by chrisweekly on Friday April 30, 2021 @01:02PM (#26996111)

Ah, of course. Thanks for clarifying.

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Re:Show HN: Appleshouter – iOS Push Notifications for PWAs a... by floatingatoll on Friday April 30, 2021 @10:46AM (#26994106)

Thanks, this puts it better.

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Re:Show HN: Appleshouter – iOS Push Notifications for PWAs a... by markh on Friday April 30, 2021 @07:23AM (#26992038)

My thoughts exactly. Here’s hoping their anti-PWA stance might soften with increased antitrust scrutiny.

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Re:Show HN: Appleshouter – iOS Push Notifications for PWAs a... by mrpelz on Friday April 30, 2021 @07:15AM (#26991993)

Anyone with a wide audience on the App Store already has the means of sending notifications to users via APNS…

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