Apple confirms it's breaking iPhone web apps in the EU on purpose

Re:Apple confirms it's breaking iPhone web apps in the EU on... by Roark66 on Friday February 16, 2024 @01:44AM (#39393975)

>low usage This is hilarious. As a developer, if PWAs work properly I'm much more interested in writing them, test them on ios and market them to ios users. If the feature is uncertain, or outright broken like now of course no sane, businesses sense driven dev will spend the time to build a PWA app specifically for iOS.

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Re:Apple confirms it's breaking iPhone web apps in the EU on... by rahkiin on Friday February 16, 2024 @02:31AM (#39394238)

I have never used PWAs, so could you elaborate what you mean with ‘work properly’? What happens now that is not ideal?

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Re:Apple confirms it's breaking iPhone web apps in the EU on... by willlma on Friday February 16, 2024 @05:37AM (#39395312)

Now that push notifications and long-term localstorage are disabled, a PWA can't compete. Not being able to send notifications to your user is a huge drawback for many types of apps, and limiting localstorage means that offline capabilities are limited, so PWAs will require increased access to a network as compared to native apps.

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