Re:Apple appears to be breaking iPhone web apps in the EU
by alberto180 on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @06:01PM
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Crippling PWAs would benefit their baseline through their App Store or Core Technology Fee though
Re:Apple appears to be breaking iPhone web apps in the EU
by SllX on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @06:47PM
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PWAs aren’t exactly great on iOS to begin with, and if that was their aim, it would make more sense to disable it worldwide rather than just the EU. They may well not bring it back for all we know, but if they are going to, it’s not going to be without figuring out exactly what it is they want PWAs to be able to do and what resources they’ll be allowed access to which probably means additional APIs and entitlements for third-party browsers.
Re:Apple appears to be breaking iPhone web apps in the EU
by alberto180 on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @07:52PM
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It works quite well for some use cases
My understanding of the third-party browser requirements in the DMA is they have to be able to do anything Apple’s Safari can do if they want to, and while Apple’s built out a bunch of entitlements for browsers and other DMA requirements, they haven’t done the same work for PWAs. Yet?
So given that, it would actually violate the DMA if Safari supported them but Chrome and Firefox couldn’t, and they’re not going to allow that until they’ve taken the time to figure out how they want to proceed, if at all, with allowing it for third-party browsers.