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Apple seems to be turning a bit of a corner with the 17 release. Loosening up the app store restrictions, and now this.
by danielvaughn 3y ago
Apple seems to be turning a bit of a corner with the 17 release. Loosening up the app store restrictions, and now this.
- whizzter 3y agoAny good summary of what restrictions they've loosened?
- ceejayoz 3y agoThey recently added a bunch of features to iOS Safari to allow webapps to run much better as offline apps; web push, badging, opening in a third-party browser, etc. https://webkit.org/blog/13878/web-push-for-web-apps-on-ios-and-ipados/ https://webkit.org/blog/13878/web-push-for-web-apps-on-ios-a... They're being brought onboard to the Mac now, including the ability to add one to your dock. https://webkit.org/blog/14205/news-from-wwdc23-webkit-features-in-safari-17-beta/ https://webkit.org/blog/14205/news-from-wwdc23-webkit-featur...
- vxNsr 3y agoNot really but I noticed during their keynote they kept mentioning that features and apis would be opened to 3rd party apps. In the past these sort of features were always exclusive to apple’s own apps and considered part of their moat.
- geoffpado 3y agoIt’s a developer conference; it’s always been about announcing new features and APIs for third parties.
- danielvaughn 3y agoNot that I know of - that comment of mine was a bit vague. I'm actually not sure if it's in this exact release, but I've heard that (a) Apple is going to allow you to publish an app outside of the app store, and (b) they don't make you pay the $100 dev fee unless you actually want to publish your app. Both of those are really positive changes for the developer experience.
- capableweb 3y agoI guess it's a natural move once you realize that regulators starts to take a closer look at what you've been doing.