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The security/privacy argument has been debunked many times. How do you explain that all other OSes, including Apple's own macOS, manage to allow other browser engines? Do you think…

Worth noting that Apple doesn't just cripple iOS Safari, it cripples all iOS browsers because it also forces them to use WebKit, the crippled browser engine underneath Safari. It w…

Yeah that's why the bigger the market they can reach with a version using their own engine, the more likely they are to invest into doing it. Now the question is what's the thresho…

Yeah other reasons I've heard of include the obligation to adopt iOS-specific APIs for features like scrolling and text inputs; developing a separate app for these markets and ther…

So after the EU and the UK, Japan is now putting an end to Apple's iOS alternative browser engine ban too. Those are 3 large jurisdictions, I wonder if that's now a market big enou…

The likely outcome of alternate, capable browser engines coming to iOS will be to push Apple to invest in Safari so it can compete with them and not loose all of its market share. …

Browser engines define the capabilities of web apps and websites. When they don't support APIs or have bugs, they impact negatively web software. Apple's WebKit is renowned to be l…

Testing mobile interactions such as scrolling and swiping, as well as animations' performance cannot be done through a VM. Only real devices allow to test these aspects properly.

I didn't say Apple invented mobile web apps. I said Apple invented the ability to install mobile web apps on device. I'm not 100% sure no other mobile OS allowed this before to be …

The ability to install web apps that open as standalone apps, and not in Safari, was introduced by Apple with iOS 2.1 in 2008. Well before this ability was added to Android. Apple …

Mobile web apps that can be installed on device were invented by Apple. This was the way developers were supposed to develop apps for the iPhone when it was released, before Apple …

> "EU is already so harmonized that startups can shop for best corporate structure and law, just like they do in the US and run their business smoothly." It's not harmonized at all…

Just one nitpick: the DOM is not updated by CSS here, only the value of the CSS variable is. (It will indeed cause style recalc and paint though, and result in poor performance as …

So basically Apple managed to delay the application of the DMA to iPadOS by 7 months.

So they can make it to work for platform-specific apps that they tax 30%, but can't make it to work for interoperable web apps which they can't tax. How convenient.

And what are they suggesting to improve the proposal? Apple, which makes $20B a year with Safari, surely has enough resources to make a counter-proposal?

The APIs coming with a security or privacy risk are always gated by a permission prompt on the web (contrary to platform-specific apps). Safari has gone even further by only allowi…

Why would they belong in a platform-specific app but not in a standard-based web app? Because Apple can't get 30% out of it?

Another very good web app emulator is https://afterplay.io . It also works very well within the browser or installed on the homescreen.

Enforcing a single browser engine is in no way a requirement for PWAs, no. Windows, macOS and Android all support PWAs while also allowing them to be run by different browser engin…

Although Apple now has to allow alternative browsers to ship their engines in the EU, they actually set out ridiculous conditions for browser vendors to be able to do so. Therefore…

"Browser-specific failures are the number of WPT tests which fail in exactly one browser." From wpt.fyi In other terms, WPT test failures for Safari means Safari has bugs or unsupp…

Interop is only a tiny subset of the entire suite of WPT tests, and it only contains tests that all vendors agreed upon, so no browser will look bad in Interop. If you look at the …

You seem particularly willing to ignore the facts in order to paint Apple's actions in a good light. Apple releases developer notes containing changes included in its betas. Such a…

Speculation on HN has little value compared to the letter and spirit of the law.