[arthurcolle]

Yes, I am not OP but obviously they are more anti-competitive if ONLY for their killing off support for progressive web apps over the last 3 or 17 releases of iOS/Safari

[culi]

I'm a big fan of PWAs, but this really seems like small fries compared to something like Walmart which has an internal planned economy many times larger than the Soviet Union ever achieved.

If you sell your product in Walmart they basically own everything about it. They deem how you make your product, the supply chain, the prices you charge, everything

And they use this incredibly granular level of control to run out any possible competition

[midoridensha]

I guess that's why Amazon, Best Buy, local grocery stores, etc. all went out of business.

Oh wait...

[pwinnski]

I think you meant that as sarcasm, but...

Fry's Electronics closed completely, while Best Buy keeps closing stores and laying people off at an accelerated rate[0].

Local grocery stores are almost extinct, as Walmart[1], Amazon, Kroger, and Albertson's crowd out or buy out everyone else.

It's a serious problem, your sarcasm notwithstanding.

0. https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/25/business/best-buy-store-closu...

1. https://ilsr.org/walmarts-monopolization-of-local-grocery-ma...

[dmitriid]

This statement is a verifiable lie.

1. There's no such thing as PWA. There are a dozen or more standards, and everyone selects a different set of them to pretend they are oh so crucial.

2. Safari has supported the vast majority of standards that even Google deems as crucial for PWAs

3. Many of the "standards" some people on HN want are Chrome-only non-standards that are also opposed by Firefox

4. Actual people couldn't care less about PWAs because: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34517503

[scarface74]

Yes because PWAs are so great on Android, most companies only build iOS apps and tell Android users just to use their website.