[mantenpanther]

Regardless of who is the bad guy here, the outcome of this is just devastating for the free web. For me the future trajectory of Apps were PWAs, which worked reasonably well lately. As small company, creating one App that works everywhere and is available without AppStores was just great. Much money spent on PWAs just wasted.

This is a terrible outcome, again caused by "well meant" but unpractical EU regulation.

[andy_ppp]

Why can’t the user be given the option of PWAs working like they do now with Safari or this new system that clearly sucks.

It’s obvious Apple is having a temper tantrum about being regulated, but it’s not wise for a company to behave like this.

[mantenpanther]

No denying that, but the objective outcome is bad.

[LaGrange]

ROFL. This isn't "unpractical EU regulation" but once again a corporation doing malicious compliance. At some point they really should just get banned from the market with any IP rights getting invalidated.

[mantenpanther]

The EU gave Apple an argument to kill PWAs (because the investment to support them is not worth it for them), while Apple does not like PWAs anyways. Bad for the citizens of the EU.

[LaGrange]

> while Apple does not like PWAs anyways

[citation needed].

PWAs give Apple an out from having certain apps (for example, FetLife) on the App Store without making the phone a non-starter for people who want to use them. As much as Apple likes its walled garden, it likes the walls just fuzzy enough to not piss people off into migrating.

Apple just want to make the regulation itself annoying.

[mantenpanther]

And annoying it is. I'm not on the side of Apple here, but also question the way regulators work, because lately the outcome of IT-regulation in some cases seems to be a net negative for citizens.