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Text Shot: Even though PWAs aren’t widely used among iOS users, cutting them off in the EU with iOS 17.4 was a bad move. I’m curious if this last-minute change is at the behest of the EU, or if Apple is just trying to get ahead of things here. I’m also curious to see if PWAs being tied to WebKit will stand the test of time.

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Text Shot: Even though PWAs aren’t widely used among iOS users, cutting them off in the EU with iOS 17.4 was a bad move. I’m curious if this last-minute change is at the behest of the EU, or if Apple is just trying to get ahead of things here. I’m also curious to see if PWAs being tied to WebKit will stand the test of time.
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Eric Eggert (yatil@yatil.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 16:12:15 JST Eric Eggert

I would not be surprised if the exact demands towards the regulation was unclear and lawyers included PWAs just to be sure. Removing them so publicly might have been a way to get the regulators to say “we don’t consider PWAs as part of the browser” or “we give you a longer deadline”.
Testing out the edges of regulation is a weird fascination for me, so I would have loved to be in the room 😅
Apple Reverses Course on PWAs in EU https://512pixels.net/2024/03/apple-reverses-course-on-pwas-in-eu/

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