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Apple attempting killing PWAs in EU: Action Needed (open-web-advocacy.org)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Apple has decided to remove Progressive web apps from iOS in EU. If you have a business in the EU or serve EU users via Web App/PWA, we must hear from you in the next 48 hours!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

How is it more insecure than a website?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

@kilgore_trout @bloodfart apple wants people to jump through THEIR hoops to run anything on their phone, so they can get a 30% cut of the money. That's why they're so rich. PWAs bypass that. Apple would kill off web browsers too if they had the power - just like they did kill off Flash, which made the web too powerful for Apple at the time, giving not enough incentive to install their walled garden apps.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 months ago

How is a piece of software that runs in the browser instead of directly in the os, uses a million little libraries and became popular as a way to avoid scrutiny on the distribution platform less secure than a website?

Let’s assume you have great answers for all that and I’m made to look like a fool: when someone goes to a website, their guard is up. When they click on an app their guard is down.

If nothing else pwas bypass user distrust of weird crap on the internet and that’s a bad thing