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Comment on Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Features:
• Anonymous Recording – No account, no personal details required.
• Secure Uploads – Encrypted transfer to privacy-focused storage.
• Map-Based Sharing – Videos appear where they happened, for public awareness.
• Offline Support – Record even without internet; upload when connected.
• Metadata Control – Strips identifying data before publishing.

Seems like more than just a website wrapper.

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pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Surely all of those things can be done in a browser. You can grant location and camera permissions to a website easy enough. And encrypted transfer can be done any number of ways. Offline recording is possible with localstorage. All of this seems very achievable and effectively uncensorable by Apple.

The only thing it can’t get is App Store search rank.

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- cabbage@piefed.social ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  …offline support?
  
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  - pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Yeah, you get some offline capabilities when you have a PWA. Obviously app or not, nobody is going to be uploading video without an internet connection.
    
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- cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  iirc mobile safari doesn’t do pwas and doesn’t have a lot of the web apis
  
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  - pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I guarantee you that all this can be done in Mobile Safari. I have done it before.
    
    You have to go through the “Share > Add to Home Screen” workflow instead of having the site simply install it for you, so it’s a bit more effort (and confusion) on the user’s part.
    
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  - OfCourseNot@fedia.io ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    It does. I'm posting this comment on the Mbin pwa on my iPhone, works pretty well.
    
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  - ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    It does. Installing them is intentionally obtuse and is buried in the “share” menu.
    
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- FaceDeer@fedia.io ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Sure, it's possible. But you're basically turning the browser into a virtual machine and building an app on that virtual machine. It's unnecessary. Or should be unnecessary, anyway, with a sane operating system.
  
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  - pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    What? No man, this is all standard mobile web stuff.
    
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  - SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    A web browser is already basically a “virtual machine”. You can basically even run native code using WebAssembly.
    
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    FaceDeer@fedia.io ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Yes, I know. I'm saying it should be an unnecessary layer.
    
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- MotoAsh@piefed.social ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  It would definitely be a bit more annoying to program, and a bit more naggy to the user for permissions during setup I’m sure, and running in the background would take some finagling and extra work and iOS could still kill it in the background on you … but otherwise it’d be the same.
  
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  - pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Probably doesn’t need to run in the background unless I’m missing some feature?
    
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    frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Video uploads. If the browser tab is closed, the upload is interrupted. An app can continue running in the background.
    
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