Magenta Musik is an entertainment service -part of the German telecom company - offering information about concerts and festivals. In 2022, Magenta Musik shut down their native apps on both #iOS and #Android and replaced them with a single Progressive Web App (PWA). #PWA#Web
They have invested two years in their PWA app. Now the service is telling customers in the FAQ that PWAs won't work in iOS 17.4. The information is short and confusing. It doesn't tell iPhone customers what other alternatives they have, leaving them lost in a cycle of confusion. This is because Magenta Musik themselves don't even know what to do. This confusion is caused by #Apple.
Homescreen #PWA web apps are implicated in two sets of #DMA requirements: the ones that apply to #iOS and the ones that apply to the #AppStore.
It’s not possible to understand the situation and the legality of Apple’s responses to the DMA in regard to Homescreen web apps without looking at both sets of requirements.
While I cannot overstate how happy I am that #Apple backed down and will continue to allow #PWA on #iOS in the EU, I don’t trust this peace. 🤔 Somehow it feels like they merely moved the phase-out to iOS 18. Let’s hope that won’t happen. 😅
For now a lot of motivation to work on my apps returned and hey—seems like my iPhone won’t turn into an expensive paper weight once 17.4 drops. 😉😅
Nice! Web Apps are here to stay! iOS 17.4 will still support them. I'm really glad Apple came to this decision as it would break my whole workflow and would make two of my web apps less nice.
Ciąg dalszy akcji Apple z PWA, czyli aplikacjami webowymi, których nie musisz instalować przez sklep:
Jednak przywrócą, ale:
Tylko w browserach na WebKit.
Czyli wprowadzili kozę, że nikt nie będzie miał, i wyprowadzili kozę, że WebKit/Safari będzie mieć.
Nikt już nie pamięta, że oczekiwane przez prawo UE miało być zarówno dopuszczenie innych niż WebKit silników renderujących, jak i dopuszczenie innych browserów do PWA.
Apple chce utrzymać monopol sklepu za wszelką cenę. Tu nie chodzi o technologię, a o marketing.
P.S. Nie daję linka do źródła, bo powiela idiotyczne tezy i ściemę Apple. Ale fakty są takie, jakie są. PWA jako apka z ikoną i powiadomieniami TYLKO na Safari/WebKit...
📢 Apple takes back the changes to Home Screen Web Apps in the European Union 🇪🇺: “We have received requests to continue to offer support for Home Screen web apps in iOS, therefore we will continue to offer the existing Home Screen web apps capability in the EU.” https://developer.apple.com/support/dma-and-apps-in-the-eu/ #iOS#Apple#PWA
Why don't users in the EU have access to Home Screen web apps?
[…] EU users will be able to continue accessing websites directly from their Home Screen through a bookmark with minimal impact to their functionality. We expect this change to affect a small number of users. Still, we regret any impact this change — that was made as part of the work to comply with the DMA — may have on developers of Home Screen web apps and our users.
One thing that annoys me in the #Chrome implementation of #PWA is that while the PWA can have a share intent (which is used by Android to be able to share something onto the app), there's nothing in Chrome that consumes that.
I can't just right click on a link I want to share and have it open in Mastodon or share to my Tagger. Only extensions are added there, so I get Google Drive and Wallabag only :/
#AAPL's recent changes to #PWA (#ProgressiveWebApp) functionality in #iOS, specifically in the #EU, has sparked outrage among #webdev. The company's late acknowledgment of intentionally limiting PWA capabilities, presented as compliance with the EU's #DigitalMarketsAct, has been criticized as deceitful. This move, seen as an attempt to protect its #appStore#monopoly, undermines open #webStandards and harms #developers and users.
#Apple operates with much smaller teams than you think. Productive engineers plus focusing on the right features lets them deliver products that are competitive in the real world against much bigger teams.
Apple will also (almost?) never admit that they didn’t do something because the teams didn’t have enough time. Marketing wants to preserve the magic smoke.
So the #PWA decision is actually not that hard to imagine as an ex-insider.
I know I’ve been going on about this (and boosting related things) quite a bit over the past few days, but this is a topic that is very near and dear to me.
#Apple is obliterating #PWA in the EU with the update to #iOS 17.4, which will be out soon. A third of the apps on my Home Screen are PWAs, all the apps I’ve built in recent years are PWAs. They are a vital part of free and independent app distribution on all platforms.
it has been almost a year since I have returned to using #Linux And it was only today (in fact a few minutes ago) that I have discoveried I can run websites as apps in #LinuxMint using #Firefox without any plugins.
I must say I have drank one can of beer since I came home from work but still, I am mesmerized about this.
Of course one can choose the browser they use for this.
This is really awesome.
Linux is awesome.