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Look at how Google pushed Chrome on its websites and people picked it up. They could do the same for web apps. What's been limiting them all this time is Apple
by lozenge 3y ago
Look at how Google pushed Chrome on its websites and people picked it up.
They could do the same for web apps. What's been limiting them all this time is Apple policy.
Apple policy 1- PWAs on iPhone must use Safari, Safari only has features Apple chooses to implement
Apple policy 2- Add to Home Screen is hidden away
Now with DMA, Google could make its own web browser, provide all their apps as "PWAs that work with Chrome and not Safari" and people could go along with it. Heck they could even start their own app store without the apps having to follow any of Apple's "alternative distribution" rules- because they're web apps, not native apps.
- adestefan 3y agoSo you’d rather have Google abuse its monopoly on search to get what you want?
- cybrox 3y agos/Google/Mozilla then
- lozenge 3y agoI'm just working through Apple's reasoning. The idea that PWAs aren't in common use now therefore they won't be used in the future is completely wrong and that's borne out by history. Apple held the door closed for PWAs and with the EU's new rules on web browsers that no longer applies. I'm in favor of being able to install whatever we want on devices we own, and the DMA is a step towards that.
- BlueTemplar 3y agoSpeaking of, this is all missing the bigger issues : Apple should not be allowed to control both the OS and the app store. Same as Google shouldn't be allowed to control both Google Search and Chrome. (And due to these and many other issues they should have been banned from operating in the EU years ago.)