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Apple will keep homescreen web apps.
And they'll have to use WebKit.
I think it's the right approach. What they don't want is a replay of Electron-based garbage destroying the performance and UX of the platform.
It's one thing for endless copies of chromium binaries to clog your Mac, consume all your RAM, and run down your battery
it's quite another for it to happen on a device you badly need to still work by the end of the day
https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/01/apple-home-screen-web-apps-ios-17-eu/
The Everything Open Always Everywhere Fetishists posit a world where web apps are MIRACULOUSLY PERFORMANT because they bring their own rendering engines and runtimes and finally, FINALLY show Apple how the web and indeed SOFTWARE ITSELF is supposed to be done
somehow ignoring the fact that we've already seen this movie on the Mac via Electron and the tradeoff for write once, run anywhere apps is that they kind of suck ass
no one loves them, they're just kind of tolerated
tech dorks over-generalize their values and priorities, but the people who have even a modicum of opinion about how this stuff works exist in single digit percentage points with really limited capacity for influence (see: Masto's cultural ceiling)
Overall people keep giving Apple money because people really like what Apple gives them, and they're not doing much analysis beyond that
anyway, however it shakes out, I do love to see the EU exercising its counterpower
Keep regulating Silicon Valley. Someone has to.
Two regulations I hope they pass by 2030:
- If you stop supporting the device you gotta open it WIDE
- If your device includes a battery, it must be user replaceable with a tool you include in the box
if you force Apple to innovate on battery replacement, they will ABSOLUTELY deliver something badass
look at this clasp. Look at this! this is one of the coolest little bits of mechanical design I've ever had in 40 years alive. It works perfectly. rock solid. Not a hint of play once it's snapped in. Unclasps instantly, no effort
Imagine this juice with battery replacements. Regulate it into existence, EU. I beg you.
@danilo in my experience they run fine everywhere except ios
@danilo Is that a pair of headphones?
@semitones Vision Pro
@danilo looks similar to the clasp they used on the leather AirTag keychain
@danilo The battery mechanism on the aluminium MacBook Pros was pretty satisfying as well, with the little lever.
@danilo I'd also be in favor of a practice, enshrined in law, where if a piece of technology is discontinued, it would enter into a conservatorship after a period of time and made open - source code, documentation, cad models, etc.
@matthew medical devices in particular need this
@danilo Maybe I am old, but wasn't PWA everywhere the original Apple plan that got shelveld because it was terrible?