Re:Apple confirms it's breaking iPhone web apps in the EU on...
by brookst on Friday February 16, 2024 @07:30AM
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Isn’t all regulation about activities, not outcomes?
If a regulator enforces a ban on dihydrogen monoxide in a misguided attempt to reduce global warming, should companies comply with the regulation or the presumed intent?
The EU is demonstrating the folly of legislation tech product design at this level of detail.
Re:Apple confirms it's breaking iPhone web apps in the EU on...
by jsjohnst on Friday February 16, 2024 @07:52AM
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> dihydrogen monoxide
Heh! Also known as hydroxyl acid. It’s the major component of acid rain.
;)
Re:Apple confirms it's breaking iPhone web apps in the EU on...
by scarface_74 on Friday February 16, 2024 @08:40AM
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It came out in the Epic trial that 90% of App Store revenue comes from in app purchases of pay to win games. They are not going to all of the sudden move to PWAs and on top of that, they already use cross platform engines.
In some regards yes. In practical regards they're a threat to app store margins (on all app stores, not just Apple), so there's no incentive to truly support them other than developers being loud about it.
>I don’t even know where to find one.
Because Apple has crippled the ability for you to use them, so developers can't really spend time working on them. Chicken and egg problem.
>if Apple is complying
They're not really, they're twisting and turning as much as possible to look like complying but make the desired outcomes even more difficult to achieve.