[veeti]

It really makes me wonder what makes people engage in such pointless semantic handwringing like this. Your comment even acknowledges the end result: support for PWA's and as a result persistent storage has been removed. Do you think that end users care that you can make some theoretical mental gymnastic argument about how there hasn't been a "policy change" when from any practical point of view there actually has been one?

[JimDabell]

It’s not pointless semantic handwringing. I was specifically responding to this:

> I think removing persistent storage and the ability to add websites to the home screen makes it obvious what their strategy is.

Inferring their motives from a policy change that hasn’t taken place is pointless.

This would have been a reasonable thing to say:

> I think removing the ability to add websites to the home screen makes it obvious what their strategy is.

Specifically referring to the removal of persistent storage as if it were a policy change they are currently enacting is counterfactual.

[rezonant]

The argument is pedantic.

[pmontra]

You are correct but Apple might get away with that because those users bought Apple phones because they like Apple and those phones. Some of those users might also not like the EU but that's not important. They made an explicit pro Apple choice as customers and they'll defend their choice not to concede that they were wrong at trusting Apple. The blame will be on the EU. Those bureacrats in Brussels...