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Despite initial plans, that ship has long sailed. Apple's all about exerting control over the app store, and purposefully breaking the open web on their platfor
by mankash666 8y ago
Despite initial plans, that ship has long sailed. Apple's all about exerting control over the app store, and purposefully breaking the open web on their platform, to drive users and devs to the app store.
Non exhaustive list of web APIs broken on iOS Safari:
1. WebRTC Data channel
2. WebGl 2
3. Limiting WebApp storage to 50MB, just because. Oh, and purging it at random, just because
4. Web push notifications
5. Disallowing 3rd party browser engines (Every browser on iOS is a wrapper around iOS's WebKit)
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- duxup 8y agoOh I don't doubt it, they're not interested in going back. I just thought it was an interesting fact if true about their perspective early on. Heck I'm just getting into web development and honestly... web apps seem to be JUST barely now getting there when it comes to app quality, polish.
- mankash666 8y ago> web apps seem to be JUST barely now getting there when it comes to app quality, polish. True. And this is the time for Apple to support and reach parity with other browser vendors on emerging Web features. Unless their true intent is to unfairly drive devs and users to the app store,
- darpa_escapee 8y agoThis was at the height of the Web 2.0 phase and many platforms were preparing to go the HTML/JS/CSS route for applications. At the time, it seemed like the trajectory application development was heading. Palm's WebOS put web technology first on its platform, and sought to compete with the existing mobile platforms.
- pjmlp 8y agoYep, 20 years trying to beat native and now the browsers are turning into general purpose VMs.