[burnerthrow008]

> Safari is the only browser allowed by Apple to implement PWAs on iOS, which gives Safari an advantage over the other browsers that are not allowed to implement PWAs on iOS

Thank you for explaining so succinctly why Apple is compelled by regulation to remove the PWA feature from Safari.

To do otherwise would be anticompetitive and risk the wrath of the EC.

[commoner]

Apple is not compelled to remove PWAs from Safari in the EU, because Apple has the option of allowing non-Safari browsers to implement PWAs. Apple chose to remove a PWA feature from Safari and prevent non-Safari browsers from adding PWA icons to home screens, which degrades functionality for all iOS users in the EU while still granting Safari an anticompetitive advantage.

[kj99]

You aren’t making sense. How does it grant safari an advantage if no browser has PWAs?

[commoner]

As the article says, Apple is changing iOS in the EU to prevent non-Safari browsers from adding PWA icon links to the home screen, making this feature exclusive to Safari (and granting Safari an anticompetitive advantage). Apple did not remove PWAs in Safari, but they removed the ability for PWAs to be displayed full-screen in Safari in the EU.

[kj99]

Wrong. They did remove PWAs in safari. The old icons just become links with no special PWA features, and new ones can't be created.

[commoner]

Nothing in the article says that new PWA links can't be created in Safari. Read carefully:

> PWAs can’t be linked to alternative browsers.

If the situation that you think is happening were true, the article would simply say that Apple removed PWA links from iOS, instead of specifically saying that the removal applies to alternative (non-Safari) browsers on iOS.

[kj99]

this one article is not the only source of information that exists

https://www.perplexity.ai/search/6a34e8f6-362a-45de-9c8b-3fc...

[alberto180]

They are granting their App Store or Core Technology Bullshit an huge advantage