> Throughout this process, they’ve chosen to maliciously comply as much as possible, resulting in a series of decisions meant to cripple the ability for anyone to compete <i>on their platform</i> outside of their App Store.<p>I've seen this issue pop up a number of times recently, but haven't quite 'gotten it'.<p>Is this just a complaint from people who pay Apple to maintain a walled garden, now complaining that they don't like the walls in said garden?<p>Does Apple have any power to ruin anything outside their walled garden (in the context of this malicious compliance?)
I am proposing a workaround for restoring PWA support in third-party web browsers on iOS - to append some well-known query param or hash to the PWA URL by convention (like ?__pwa__ or #__pwa__ or similar) and detect PWA using it, then hide the UI: <a href="https://twitter.com/niu_tech/status/1758877533481717951" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/niu_tech/status/1758877533481717951</a> or <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@niutech/111947656399263607" rel="nofollow">https://fosstodon.org/@niutech/111947656399263607</a>.<p>But a better response is to show Apple the finger by boycotting its products. For instance, I've replaced iOS for Sailfish OS and Ubuntu Touch, which respect my privacy and are much more open.
Are PWAs alive enough to have something to “kill” in the first place?<p>One still has the feeling that the driving force behind “let’s make the web work like native apps” comes from FAANGs who generate revenue by having people engage even more with web content.<p>Why on earth would we replace one set of walled gardens with another? PWAs are not an improvement, just a different take on the same system (only one would be enslaved to their browser maker and OS maker and not just OS maker like native apps).
Some of the stories that people have shared in the official bug report[1] are extremely disheartening.<p>Entire businesses ruined, healthcare applications that no longer work, everyone scrambling for answers and hoping that this is somehow a misunderstanding because Apple provided zero communication or transparency around this to developers.<p>The level of pettiness from them on this is truly disgusting. I hope the EU hits them with the mother of all fines in response to this.<p>I also don’t know how someone like Jen Simmons could possibly continue in her role as a Web Evangelist at Apple with any sense of credibility after this incident.<p>[1] <a href="https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=268643" rel="nofollow">https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=268643</a>