[throwawa14223]

Maybe I don’t get it? I look at the list of features Apple is removing and they all seem like things I wouldn’t want a web browser to have to begin with.

[azangru]

> I look at the list of features Apple is removing and they all seem like things I wouldn’t want a web browser to have to begin with.

If only Apple just removed them from Safari, and allowed other browsers to compete...

[m1el]

Not a browser, but a PWA. It's a web page, which you can "install" as an "app". Features like storage, background tasks and notifications are important for many applications, for example a messenger. These were available, and there is a market for those, but Apple has decided to kill that market.

[throwawa14223]

That makes a ton more sense thank you.

[the_gipsy]

Just look at the timing.

And there is a simple solution too: just offer multiple browsers in the appstore.

[Sander_Marechal]

It's not about browsers. It's about OS APIs that browsers need to support PWAs. Apple is killing those APIs so that other browsers cannot offer PWAs.

[the_gipsy]

That's what I meant: they could continue offering safari as a "basic web browser" but allow actual web browsers in the appstore, that can fully implement any web APIs.

[throwawa14223]

This is probably not accurate given I was mistaken above but I thought that's what Apple was doing. You can load any browser but some OS APIs are going away.