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Honestly this doesn't bother me as much as some of the other malicious compliance Apple has been doing. It sounds like Safari had a pretty tight level of integr
by Ajedi32 3y ago
Honestly this doesn't bother me as much as some of the other malicious compliance Apple has been doing. It sounds like Safari had a pretty tight level of integration with the operating system in order to allow PWAs, and creating secure APIs to allow other 3rd party browsers to achieve the same thing would have been expensive. So in order to avoid giving preferential treatment Safari over competing browsers without incurring that cost they had to remove PWA support.
Obviously long-term what should happen is that Apple should build out those necessary APIs, then re-introduce PWA support to Safari and 3rd party browsers, but I personally feel like the EU trying to legislate an entirely new platform feature into existence like that would be a step too far.
Some of the other concerns with Apple's recent moves (like them trying to charge developers for installs that don't go through Apple's App Store, and that Apple therefore has nothing to do with) are a far bigger issue.