[mihaela]

"Apple is holding the web back"

Nope, Apple is taking care of it's customers and protecting them from Google's ad exploitation.

"I feel it may be a similar fate for Apple, and for similar reasons, unless they change their attitude towards the web"

On the contrary, if Apple allowed this web Wild West that Google is advocating, then the users would have incentive to switch. This move from Apple actually ensures that things run smoothly on Apple devices.

It is not about "power for web developers", it is web developers being lazy to self-educate and learn other stacks.

There is skill called "desktop development" and it does not entail Electron.

Luckily Apple is not gonna let that happen with the mobile apps and the PWA.

[osrec]

But Apple's app store is full of junk too - it is a veritable wild west in its own right.

You have the likes of Tiktok on there, collecting way more data than a PWA ever could. Do Apple not care about that?

Feels like a bit of a double standard on privacy, explicitly aimed at stifling the web.

[fauigerzigerk]

>Nope, Apple is taking care of it's customers and protecting them from Google's ad exploitation.

Apple is "protecting" its customers by restricting and patronising them like little children. Privacy by default is good, but many of their restrictions are clearly aimed at rent seeking.

Where customers really need protection, Apple is stabbing them in the back by aiding and abetting human rights abuses with their pointless side-loading ban and their willingness to let dictators run their own iCloud service.