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”
“Tell me you don’t understand web apps without telling me you don’t understand web apps”
It’s a glorified website. I don’t see anyone being afraid of infecting their devices by simply visiting a url
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.
And the enshittification continues.
But Apple makes overpriced ego boosting lifestyle products anyway, so anyone who thinks they need their crap deserves it.
PWA could have been awesome but Apple and Google would rather have apps in their stores where they can clip the ticket. Sad.
*Apple
Google for the longest time was (and still is) one of the biggest supporters of the idea. Chromium overall has the best support for PWAs and some of their Apps (like Google News or Photos) have very competent PWA versions.
Samsung’s OneUI handles PWAs much better than stock Android. What Google does is the bare minimum.
Not from my experience. Almost all Android Variants (including Stock) handle them great.
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 jobs webapps!”
