Apple ignores DMA interoperability requests and contradicts own documentation

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Re: Apple ignores DMA interoperability requests and contradicts own documentation

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Post by Rohansi » Thu, Apr 23, 2026, 6:23 PM UTC

nozzlegear wrote: post #59

Rohansi wrote: post #42

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Lets say you were making an app and had to decide between native or PWA. You don't need much more than push notifications so there shouldn't be a big difference between the two. You do your research and find that you can either have: a) Native app: publish to App Store, make links on your website directly open the App Store page where the user can install your app b) PWA: your app is usable directly on your website,…

Native apps can't send push notifications without asking for permission on iOS either. If all you need is push notifications, that shouldn't be your deciding factor.

I didn't even cover push notification permission in my comment. The PWA also needs to ask for permission to send push notifications after the user adds it to their home screen, so they're the same.

> If all you need is push notifications, that shouldn't be your deciding factor.

I'm dealing with this right now! Rewriting a React Native app as a PWA because reasons. Current plan is to ship it as a WebView app to avoid Apple's PWA installation hurdle. Everyone else will be able to easily install it as a PWA.

Re: Apple ignores DMA interoperability requests and contradicts own documentation

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Post by Tepix » Wed, Apr 29, 2026, 2:09 PM UTC

Rohansi wrote: post #42

CharlesW wrote: post #27

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> also, I care about PWAs / glad we could make your day by introducing you to something new As the creator of pwascore.com, I'm in your elite club of the teensy percentage of people who care about PWAs. > I think if it were a viable option on an iphone¹, a nonzero number of people² would choose the more privacy-preserving aspects of a PWA over installing a random app ¹They are, and ²they don't. It'd be nice to blame…

Lets say you were making an app and had to decide between native or PWA. You don't need much more than push notifications so there shouldn't be a big difference between the two. You do your research and find that you can either have: a) Native app: publish to App Store, make links on your website directly open the App Store page where the user can install your app b) PWA: your app is usable directly on your website,…

I agree that Apple is hiding the "add to homescreen" option and I think it's despicable.

Still, I count 4 taps ("...", Share, "To home screen", "Add") and one swipe.

Don't get me wrong, I do blame Apple for the fact that people don't know about PWAs.

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