misk@sopuli.xyz to Apple@lemmy.world · 10 months agoApple’s decision to drop iPhone web apps comes under scrutiny in the EUwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10
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minus-squaremnrockclimber@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 months agoI would disagree with the premise. A website and an application aren’t the same thing just because they are written in the same language (javascript). PWAs are apps in every sense of the word. Websites are not. I think the comments section on this Ars techinca article cover it pretty well, rather than re-hashing the same. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/apple-changes-course-will-keep-iphone-eu-web-apps-how-they-are-in-ios-17-4/?comments=1&comments-page=2
I would disagree with the premise. A website and an application aren’t the same thing just because they are written in the same language (javascript). PWAs are apps in every sense of the word. Websites are not. I think the comments section on this Ars techinca article cover it pretty well, rather than re-hashing the same. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/apple-changes-course-will-keep-iphone-eu-web-apps-how-they-are-in-ios-17-4/?comments=1&comments-page=2