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We do talk to the browser vendors. The bundle ID one by itself ensures it's unviable project. That's why 15 months in, there are no alternative browser engines in the EU.

Thanks so much! it’s been a four-year journey just to get this far, and none of it would have been possible without the volunteers who donate their time just for the belief in a be…

1. If you use either "Safari" or "Chrome" on iOS, then Apple gets paid. That's 97% of the market on iOS. 2. Many of those games could be rewritten in WebGPU/WebGL2.. if it saved th…

And it can’t just be the woefully insufficient TestFlight 10k users because there are possible upwards of a million developers who need to test their websites/web apps in the EU.

I would also add: - Install Prompts / Discoverability - Bugs (like https://github.com/web-platform-tests/interop/issues/84 ) which likely would only get fixed if Safari has heavy c…

Apple hasn’t resolved any of the main issues. Install and discoverability is still hidden. Push is gated behind install. Safari’s scroll bugs haven’t been fixed despite us extensiv…

Author here, this was supposed to be when the user installs a new browser it has the option to call an OS api to ask the user if they would like to set the newly installed browser …

Happy to answer questions about the report if anyone has any!

We use web apps to mean ones that act like apps, rather than websites. Readers are not confused, and I don’t think you are. A distraction to try and defend Apple?

Apple has single-handedly killed off mobile web apps from being viable on both iOS and Android, have deprived Firefox billions of dollars of revenue and strangled every other brows…

Are you on 17.4 beta 2? If so I’ll have more questions. People have been saying it's working for them in the EU: the Apple's detection is complex and seem to take into account diff…

This person is incorrect and doesn’t know what he’s talking about. You need to look at the full video of it action to realize the difference in behavior from 17.3 and 17.4 beta 1 a…

in Safari/webkit or more broadly?

That's a poor take. The issue is that because there is no browser competition on iOS, Apple doesn't need to fear losing market share. That in turn ensures they have no reason to in…

It was only as a result of regulatory pressure

I run https://open-web-advocacy.org and we’re the reason browser engines and web apps were included in the DMA. We know lots of developers in the EU.

We’ve had more than 10 people test it, and it completely breaks all PWAs. Why are you trusting some randoms tweet as a credible source?

They've had 2 years since the final text of the DMA was written. From memory I think we saw it in Feb/Mar 2022. In the text of the DMA it says "When gatekeepers operate and impose …

We believe that third party browsers should be allowed to compete fairly on iOS using the same engines they safely deliver to every other platform. Further, that Web Apps enabled b…