Apple officially removes support for progressive web apps in the EU
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- Anonymous
- rJc
- 17 Feb 2024
Anonymous, 16 Feb 2024You can easily install and use opera browser on iphone ✅Every browser installed on iOS is just skinning of safari browser as only WebKit is allowed to run. So your opinion is wrong.
- Kangal
- HXe
- 17 Feb 2024
Apple's tactics in 2020 would never fly in the year 1990.
This is just the pendulum swinging back the other way. These "old white men" that people are complaining about are absolutely not idiotic, they can't be to be where they are. This is the EU realising that these Technology Corporations actually possess a lot of power and influence. Documents from the USA Senate even disclosed that elections could be bought by these companies influencing the people's behaviour and voting decisions. And the fact is that most of these International Corporations are based out of USA, and they have their own interests, of which these values do not align with the Europeans. That is why these changes are coming. It's not about the money, it is about control. They want to open these platforms to competition, so there isn't just monopolies in each ecosystem. The EU can only do that for itself, it can't influence how they behave outside it's territories. So we can get USB-C iPhones for the EU-only and the USA models with Lightning-Port. And Apple actually DID do this, but they reversed their decision, since they realised how much negative press that was going to bring them. But they are being cunning and looking for ways around the EU and their laws.
So they might keep every iPhone locked heavily to Apple and it's ecosystem, BUT, having only the EU Models get access to third-party Browsers and sideloading Apps. Eventually this might spill into other markets like Australia, New Zealand, Israel, Japan, Korea, etc etc. But that still leaves alot of other (albeit smaller) markets vulnerable to being locked down, like Pakistan, South Africa, Brasil, etc etc. Eventually Apple will cave under enough pressure, and it is us the consumers that need to look after our own interests. That means sometimes we need to side with the authorities and sometimes we need to side with the corporations. We need to adapt to the changing market, it is the consumers who pay, and it is our control that is up for debate. Always put others first and yourself, don't follow blindly to companies or systems, that leads to bad things if you know your history!
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- potato4k
- XZ8
- 17 Feb 2024
AngryLithuanian, 16 Feb 2024"Apple says that making web apps comply with the EU�... moreYou mean like Google who turned 180 and decided to develop for it instead?
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- Anonymous
- PZs
- 17 Feb 2024
Darth Caesium, 16 Feb 2024And the worst part is that you cannot uninstall Chrome eith... moretry do this ... in the middle of the playing game, try to do all the following
- delete all data
- uninstall updates
- delete all data
- force stop
to the following apps
- chrome browser
- google
- google play services
and try to back to the game, what happened??? is it restart??? but you didnt touch the game app ... thatt what happens, and that why can not be uninstall
no matter what are the ecosystems, bloateare never leaves
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- Anonymous
- 70d
- 17 Feb 2024
potato4k, 17 Feb 2024Who cares? Don't want 60Hz, don't buy Apple. He didn't say that he bought an Apple phone.
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- potato4k
- XZ8
- 17 Feb 2024
erodhika94, 16 Feb 2024Imagine, still trapped with 60Hz display with those amount ... moreWho cares? Don't want 60Hz, don't buy Apple.
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- potato4k
- XZ8
- 17 Feb 2024
Super Android 22, 16 Feb 2024So its ok apple force you to stick with their ecosystem and... moreSo it's okay to just not buy Apple. Simple. Why do you have such a victim mindset, as if you are the one brainwashed by Apple?
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- JLC
- pa7
- 17 Feb 2024
potato4k, 16 Feb 2024Why? Apple is not the only smartphone platform, nor the maj... moreThis is the typical Apple pseudo argument that you are repeating. Saying you have a choice is just wrong.
An iPhone can cost easily 1000€ and more. So, you buy an iPhone, an Apple Watch, an iPad, and a MacBook and more. This is a lot of investment. You can’t just change to another eco system. Even the iPhone alone is a lot of investment for many people. People don’t have the money to spend each year a grand for a new phone! Now Apple simply disable features and you say this is ok? The EU lawmakers have the duty to protect their citizens from such practices.
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- Anonymous
- 4BT
- 17 Feb 2024
Juraj, 16 Feb 2024Imagine spending months programming your PWA for the crappy... moreShow me good thing about 3rd party developers give you bunch lawsuits case
- Juraj
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- 16 Feb 2024
Imagine spending months programming your PWA for the crappy Safari just to wake up to this.
Apple hates all 3rd party developers, that's what I've learned creating extensions for Safari (and never ever again!).
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- vjX
- 16 Feb 2024
WTF, so its security issues for EU but not the rest of the world?
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- Darth Caesium
- ssj
- 16 Feb 2024
potato4k, 16 Feb 2024Good for Apple. Meanwhile, the EU keeps turning a blind... moreAnd the worst part is that you cannot uninstall Chrome either. I hate pre-installed bloatware, but it's even worse when they cannot be uninstalled, and that's the way it is here and in most other scenarios in general. At least for a browser I understand one being pre-installed, and maybe even the uninstallation process taking more than three taps, but not allowing me to uninstall Chrome *AT ALL* is actively disgusting and anti-consumer.
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- Darth Caesium
- ssj
- 16 Feb 2024
Lb7500, 16 Feb 2024Your wrong. Apple must be forced to spin off hardware from ... moreSpin off in what way? As in like actively develop the drivers of its silicon for Android and allow people to easily flash Android on their iPhone? That's the only way that makes sense to me, though you probably mean something else. If that is what you mean, I'd love seeing that happen but it would also mean that Android phones would be forced to allow easy bootloader unlocks and easy relocks and completely get rid of APIs that punish people that root, like the ones banking apps use. We both now that in reality, neither of these things are ever going to be forced to happen, because the people in charge of making these rules know nothing about rooting or flashing custom ROMs or the like.
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- Anonymous
- GXs
- 16 Feb 2024
klv12gcn, 16 Feb 2024Of which you can disable as you wish. Or you can install an... moreYou can easily install and use opera browser on iphone ✅
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- erodhika94
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- 16 Feb 2024
potato4k, 16 Feb 2024Why? Apple is not the only smartphone platform, nor the maj... moreImagine, still trapped with 60Hz display with those amount of price. Still wondering why everyone are willingly for being trapped in to a limitation
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- erodhika94
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- 16 Feb 2024
"Apple also cites security concerns with progressive web apps based on alternative browser engines, noting that malicious apps could read data, recapture permissions, and gain access to a user's camera, microphone, or location without their knowledge."
How to scare users who knows nothing
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- AngryLithuanian
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- 16 Feb 2024
"Apple says that making web apps comply with the EU's DMA involves a lot of work that's not practical to undertake"
Same reason why no big brands wants to make apps for their Vision Pro.
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- klv12gcn
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- 16 Feb 2024
potato4k, 16 Feb 2024Good for Apple.
Meanwhile, the EU keeps turning a blind... moreOf which you can disable as you wish. Or you can install any other browser like Fire Fox, or Opera... and make them your default browset as you like. Can you do that on iPhone, my dear ifan?
So much for blind eye from EU, huh?
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- Anonymous
- 4BT
- 16 Feb 2024
Super Android 22, 16 Feb 2024Or just dont buy a product from a company that constantly h... moreSo wrong it’s funny