Open Letter to Tim Cook: Sabotaging Web Apps Is Indefensible

The company said cutting off PWAs was part of an effort to comply with the Digital Markets Act, arguing browsers other than its own Safari software would expose users to security and privacy risks that were not permitted under the law.

They are so full of shit, it's unbelievable! Are they really claiming that their own browser is THE ONLY legal browser there is?!

Move away from apple products & taste the freedom..

It seems the solution is simple. Don't use apple products anymore. Windows or linux.

Unlike apple, there's ways to make windows private and secure and most distros of linux are mostly private and mostly secure

Firefox doesn't even support pwa, this is a weird community to post this

I am using https://lichess.org/ and prefer it over the native iOS App for this free chess website. It is in fact a smoothly running PWA and even supports notifications (e.g. to remind one to move in correspondence games).

Same goes with Voyager ( https://vger.app/ ), that was used to create this post.

F* you, Apple!

Someone fill me in:

Can they really force this once EU opens the gates to the third-party app stores?

Thank you Tim Apple

This is so frustrating because this is a big hit to browsers like firefox because Apple has such a large userbase, but this same userbase does not give a shit, and this is because they bought an apple in the first place. Frustrating

Firefox doesn't support pwas

you're a cunt Tim

They are not sabotaging "web apps" (aka websites), you just need to save the website to the homescreen if you want to use a web app, (this is both quicker and takes up less storage on your device so it is better for the end-user).

They are removing these "apps" from the appstore because they are not native apps.