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And they control the web browser engines on iPhones. And keep those with fewer capabilities than native apps. See the HTML audio recording API for an example.
by tarkin2 7y ago
And they control the web browser engines on iPhones. And keep those with fewer capabilities than native apps. See the HTML audio recording API for an example.
Apple have a massive financial incentive to ensure PWAs aren’t as good as native apps. If people start seeing PWAs as better or as good as native apps, say goodbye to the iPhone.
- threeseed 7y agoMediaRecorder API is in Safari OSX as an experimental feature and it looks like it's actually not working properly in WebKit: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85851 https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85851 To be honest it doesn't seem like developers are jumping up and down for it so it's easy to understand why it's not a priority. It's open source so you're welcome to fix it I suppose.
- tarkin2 7y agoThey have to accept the patch. Currently if you want a website that records audio, and you want an iphone user to use it, you have to make a native app, just what Apple would prefer.