Comment on Apple Wants To Kill PWAs
Yaztromo@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The title appears to be quite the reach. If Apple wanted to kill PWA’s, they would have done so worldwide. There is absolutely nothing preventing them from disabling them in the US and Canada (and much of the rest of the world) today, but they haven’t — they’re only disabling them in the EU.
masterspace@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Arbitrarily and suddenly destroying all apps built with a certain tech stack will have a knock on effect for that tech stack that will drive less investment in it.
Apple is being an absolute piece of shit if they go through with this, I will never buy one of their products again if they do. They’re a trillion dollar company acting like a petulent child because they were forced to be ever so slightly less monopolistic, they’re acting like huge pieces of shit.
technom@programming.dev 9 months ago
No. They’re a trillion dollar company acting like a greedy dirty scum that they are.
masterspace@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Yes. Greedy dirty scum regularly act like children.
varsock@programming.dev 9 months ago
don’t insult children like that.
Yaztromo@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Except they aren’t. Sure, PWAs may be slightly more disadvantaged on iOS/iPadOS than they are now, but they haven’t been “destroyed”. And they continue to work exactly as they did with the prior iOS/iPadOS release in all the rest of the world.
Everyone seems to think Apple is playing some sort of 4D Chess to kill off PWAs — but if Apple wanted to kill off PWAs they could just disable the functionality completely globally tomorrow, and they’d likely face no repercussions for doing so. They don’t even need an excuse to do so.
I’m not claiming that Apple is acting honourably here; merely that if they actually wanted to kill PWAs it wouldn’t require some sort of Rube Goldberg machine-style planning to do it. There is no conspiracy here.