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Apple is officially dropping iPhone support for web apps in the EU - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Apple being Apple again. Just why does anyone actually like that company?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (5 children)

What are some popular examples that would be affected by this?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

my own reddit viewer https://rdx.overdevs.com

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

He said "popular"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

one day sugartits, one day

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If I'm understanding right, I believe Xbox Cloud Gaming and Geforce Now have used this. They get access to better video APIs by running as a home screen webapp, and aren't at risk of popping the address bar from touch confusion.

Voyager, a client for Lemmy, also installs as a webapp. Similarly, it doesn't show the address bar when you scroll up and down.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Mind you Voyager has a wrapped iOS app already. Posting from it right now.

[–] planish 7 points 10 months ago

Popular? None.

But we don't only have to build an environment that allows the doing of popular things. We also need to maintain a society in which unpopular or unusual things can be done. The doing of unpopular or unusual things is itself popular.

[–] StrayingTimbuktu 5 points 10 months ago

Here's a list of Non-Open Source web apps: https://www.neoito.com/blog/best-progressive-web-apps/

Here's a list of Open Source web apps: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_and_open-source_web_applications

The barrier of entry for these apps are just so low. You don't have to download anything for them to work and (for now) they're crossplatform.

If you haven't yet, you might want to try voyager on your lemmy instance: https://vger.app/

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

Cryptee is one that comes to mind.