| > did figure it out at the same time. And it probably took the space a non trivial amount of time to figure it out whilst apple allocated their time on other features. Now a regulation says that Apple should figure it out and Apple says they'd prefer to continue to allocate their time on other features. Apple is not government company, they do not make decision on what makes all users happy, regardless of how small the feature they are building is. They make decision based on how much profit they're expected to make. Apple probably calculated the efforts and possible profits on this and profits would probably be negative on both options to either build pwa support on arbitrary browsers vs remove pwa support on all browsers altogether. Removing support was probably the option that showed lower profit loss across the short term. In the end, I still think it's a bad move, but why should Apple care about what I think? I don't use pwas, I don't even use apple products. They are being rightfully forced to open all their gatekeeping features, in this case, they simply chose to remove the feature as a whole instead of opening it up to everyone. They will take a loss here, but it might be a smaller loss when compared with the effort that they'd have to do if they were to open the feature in the limited time the EU has given them. Maybe in the future they'll do it, but not now. I don't see why everyone is getting so worked up about this, apple is in it for the profit, even if it mean losing some in the short term. Why is this so surprising? |