[jajko]

A childish move, unexpected from such a company like apple especially with timing.

Which probably boils down to one overzealous middle/higher manager trying too hard to be a good boi for superiors to get extra bonus... I don't think it panned as expected. Otherwise apple corporate culture is quite rotten.

[0cf8612b2e1e]

There is no way such a decision was not approved by the upper echelon of management. That has both legal ramifications and monetary for a huge client.

[lapcat]

The Epic blog post shows emails with Phil Schiller and Craig Federighi. This was all approved by upper management.

[maxwell]

Those are the two that seem like pure poison.

[littlestymaar]

> A childish move, unexpected from such a company like apple especially with timing.

Especially when you add the failed PWA move before, they're starting to look pretty bad.

[evilduck]

Serious question, what PWAs are worth using on Android that don't work on iOS?

[spogbiper]

I don't think we can really know the potential of PWA, since most developers aren't going to put effort into PWAs if they won't work for a big chunk of the market. Apple is effectively strangling the technology on all platforms by refusing to support it on theirs.

[evilduck]

If PWAs had any merit at all, why would anyone build a native Android app today where all these magic features are inhibited?

What's actually missing that's stopping this from working?

[beeboobaa]

> What's actually missing that's stopping this from working?

Proper support on all platforms. No point working on PWAs that have janky tooling (reason: see previous sentence) when they're only going to work decently on Android devices anyway.

[evilduck]

So why would you build a native Android app if PWAs work better? There’s way more web developers than Android developers, and you would avoid the Play Store fees. Sound cheaper to me. What part of iOS is invalidating the value proposition for Android here?

You also didn’t answer what is missing. What is missing? What’s this insurmountable problem that’s solved everywhere else? Why is janky tooling attributable to Apple?

[rchaud]

It's not about whether it's worth using, it's about having the mere option of building an app without the overhead of paying developer fees to Apple.

[evilduck]

So it's not about PWAs at all then, it's just a handy complaint?

[ssnri]

I just like nice computers and don’t really care about the inter-corporate mudslinging.

Now not paying an equal share of tax, on the other hand, is criticism I can join in on.