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0 pointslxgr1y ago0 comments

Well, for better or worse, the web is an application platform these days.

I consider it pretty great, since the alternative is installing native apps for things I'm using exactly once or very rarely.

There's a case to be made though that maybe these things should only be available to PWAs, which is what Apple is already doing for some functionality on iOS, including push notifications.

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fennecbutt1y ago

What? I thought Apple was trying to quietly kill pwas, probably bc they don't go thru their app store. And also bc if you make a good enough sandbox then you don't need to pay for "all the wooork we put in"

lxgrOP1y ago

They certainly don’t have a lot of love for them as a first-class app development environment, but they are also their fig leaf of “open access” to the platform.

Regardless of that, I do like the idea of PWAs getting access to a higher tier of web APIs, especially those increasing the attack surface, as “installing an app” makes even non-sophisticated users do more of a double take than “visiting a website” in terms of access to their system.

indymike1y ago

iOS just really improved support for pwas sometime in the last part of last years. It's much better.

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