The tech press continues to miss the biggest iOS anti-trust thrust: browsers. The press, that is, with the exception of The Register:
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@slightlyoff and wasm-gc
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Alex Russellreplied to Bret Mogilefsky last edited by
@mogul There's a reason Apple won't engage on PWA installation UI or APIs, and plays dumb every time they come up in standards venues. The inimitable @brucelawson lays it out here:
Bruce Lawson's personal site
Bruce Lawson's blog, focussing on web accessibility, web standards, travellers tales, and music
(brucelawson.co.uk)
Capabilities + distribution == a threat to the app store. So they're undermining both, hoping nobody notices.
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@lispwitch How could I forget!
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Bret Mogilefskyreplied to Alex Russell last edited by
@slightlyoff @brucelawson Yup, absolutely! I called this when PlayStation was first looking at handheld gaming models in parallel with the rise of mobile games... It was pretty clear that eventually a standards-compliant browser would be table-stakes for any mobile device with a screen, that the web was going to be a target "platform" for middleware, and that at that point PlayStation's value-add would have to be the best storefront for gamers, and the best services for game developers.
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Thomas Steiner :chrome:replied to Alex Russell last edited by
@slightlyoff @whitequark Yes, I saw this. It's pretty incredible indeed.
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Alex Russellreplied to Bret Mogilefsky last edited by [email protected]
@mogul @brucelawson Apple foot-dragging on WebGL2 for, like, 8 years (Chromium engineers eventually wrote a lot of the code, even after the fork!) should have been a scandal that got continual coverage.
Instead, you've got The Verge et al. covering stuff like the Vision Pro and never asking why WebGPU and WebXR aren't available and why PWAs can't be installed. Neat-total abdication the challenge Apple's preferred business structure.
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@mogul s/Safari/iOS/
Apple's blocking *any* browser from delivering better PWAs there, Safari or not.
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Max Lee :blobcatverified:replied to Alex Russell last edited by
@slightlyoff Pretty sure Web HID/USB/Bluetooth/NFC/MIDI are all Google-exclusive as they seem to just ignore all the security issues with the way it's designed...
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@slightlyoff
If you try to make much more than a trivial web assembly app in safari (and on iOS everything is safari, even chrome) it terminates the app with no warning, making it look like it crashed.The limit is undocumented but appears to be around 300mb for code and data.
The only reason they would do this is to push people to the app store.. no other platform has this limit.
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Alex Russellreplied to Max Lee :blobcatverified: last edited by
@the_moep This is one of the silliest things I've read in a long time.
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@tony I hadn't heard this. iOS has aggressive memory culling for processes...could it be that?