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   Jonathan Joelson (jjoelson@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 18-Feb-2024 22:49:16 JST Jonathan Joelson

   • Thomas 🔭🕹️

   @thomasfuchs idk man, do you actually know people in real life who take advantage of this feature? I see people around me bookmark sites on their Home Screen sometimes, but not those rich full screen PWAs. There doesn’t seem to be much of an appetite for it on the part of either users or services.

   Apple’s comment that the feature is not popular enough to be worth creating new APIs for 3rd party browsers rings pretty true to me.

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     Jonathan Joelson (jjoelson@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 18-Feb-2024 23:33:59 JST Jonathan Joelson

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs I think productionizing APIs to do what was previously an internal integration is a meaningful amount of work, and I can see it tipping the cost/benefit analysis in the other direction.

     Apple has small teams and is willing to prioritize a bit more ruthlessly than their peers. Remember how they shipped the first iPhone OS with no copy/paste? I wouldn’t be surprised if they add this back later as higher priority items are checked off.