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They want to be fined so badly.
And the enshittification continues.
But Apple makes overpriced ego boosting lifestyle products anyway, so anyone who thinks they need their crap deserves it.
In its post, Apple argues that web apps are built “directly on WebKit” — the engine used by Safari — allowing web apps to “align with the security and privacy model for native apps on iOS.” With the change to iOS 17.4, websites added to the homescreen now act only as bookmarks that open a new tab in your browser
even if we play along with this bs argument, they could also have kept pwas enabled as long as a user is actually using webkit, and change the behaviour only if the web engine is changed. seems like a petty move to turn European iPhone users against pro-consumer laws. “the EU took our
jobswebapps!”Cutting nose to spite face it seems.
The only reason I spend extra for Apple is the security.
If the EU takes that, their entire business model is gone.
How’s apple more secure?
They make no money by requiring their web engine be used.
What they get is a phone where they prevent apps from snooping around other apps and secretly taking over the camera and microphone.
Here is a Wikipedia page that explains their long fight over encryption.
The EU regs just eliminated all of this protection in the name of commerce, but the big winners are the spy agencies and hackers.
You know you can just stick to the app store if you’re worried about that, right?
No, the point is that the EU is requiring that Apple comprise the security in the name of letting users choose what they want.
I have railed against Apple’s intolerable control over users since the iPhone launched, and I still see no problem with saying your special category of bookmarks-as-programs can stick to Safari. You can keep “webview” as your own thing, guys. The problem was always that other browsers were forced to use that… instead of being other browsers.
even though Android phones have offered web apps with different types of browsers for years.
Notice they didn’t say “and there are no incidences of spy software gaining access to their phones because of the lower security”
It’s a glorified website. I don’t see anyone being afraid of infecting their devices by simply visiting a url
You rely on the page generator to only generate pages.
The EU is requiring Apple to let potentially bad actors loose.
There is no way to prevent them from stealing your information or other back actions.
If anything, it makes the iPhone safer. If only one website renderer is used, you only need to find a zero-day in that one renderer to potentially infect all iPhones. Now that other web engines are going to be permitted, attackers will have to contend with multiple web engines. And you as user can choose to use a smaller web engine like Gecko in order to decrease the likelihood of being successfully attacked.