Apple says web apps from third-party browsers are a security risk.
  • Rimu@piefed.social
    282·
    9 months ago

    PWA could have been awesome but Apple and Google would rather have apps in their stores where they can clip the ticket. Sad.

    • aluminium@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      9 months ago

      *Apple

      Google for the longest time was (and still is) one of the biggest supporters of the idea. Chromium overall has the best support for PWAs and some of their Apps (like Google News or Photos) have very competent PWA versions.

    • THE MASTERMIND@feddit.chEnglish
      41·
      9 months ago

      PWA could have been awesome but Apple and Google would rather have apps in their stores where they can clip the ticket. Sad.

      There fixed it for you

  • trollercoaster@feddit.deEnglish
    272·
    9 months ago

    And the enshittification continues.

    But Apple makes overpriced ego boosting lifestyle products anyway, so anyone who thinks they need their crap deserves it.

    • RestrictedAccount@lemmy.worldEnglish
      221·
      9 months ago

      The only reason I spend extra for Apple is the security.

      If the EU takes that, their entire business model is gone.

        • RestrictedAccount@lemmy.worldEnglish
          318·
          9 months ago

          They make no money by requiring their web engine be used.

          What they get is a phone where they prevent apps from snooping around other apps and secretly taking over the camera and microphone.

          Here is a Wikipedia page that explains their long fight over encryption.

          The EU regs just eliminated all of this protection in the name of commerce, but the big winners are the spy agencies and hackers.

          • Cicraft@lemmy.worldEnglish
            101·
            9 months ago

            You know you can just stick to the app store if you’re worried about that, right?

  • ben_dover@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    9 months ago

    In its post, Apple argues that web apps are built “directly on WebKit” — the engine used by Safari — allowing web apps to “align with the security and privacy model for native apps on iOS.” With the change to iOS 17.4, websites added to the homescreen now act only as bookmarks that open a new tab in your browser

    even if we play along with this bs argument, they could also have kept pwas enabled as long as a user is actually using webkit, and change the behaviour only if the web engine is changed. seems like a petty move to turn European iPhone users against pro-consumer laws. “the EU took our jobs webapps!”

  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    9 months ago

    I have railed against Apple’s intolerable control over users since the iPhone launched, and I still see no problem with saying your special category of bookmarks-as-programs can stick to Safari. You can keep “webview” as your own thing, guys. The problem was always that other browsers were forced to use that… instead of being other browsers.

  • RestrictedAccount@lemmy.worldEnglish
    218·
    9 months ago

    even though Android phones have offered web apps with different types of browsers for years.

    Notice they didn’t say “and there are no incidences of spy software gaining access to their phones because of the lower security”

    • N0ll@lemmy.worldEnglish
      121·
      9 months ago

      It’s a glorified website. I don’t see anyone being afraid of infecting their devices by simply visiting a url

      • RestrictedAccount@lemmy.worldEnglish
        115·
        9 months ago

        You rely on the page generator to only generate pages.

        The EU is requiring Apple to let potentially bad actors loose.

        There is no way to prevent them from stealing your information or other back actions.

    • bulwark@infosec.pubEnglish
      111·
      9 months ago

      “Tell me you don’t understand web apps without telling me you don’t understand web apps”

    • Quacksalber@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      9 months ago

      If anything, it makes the iPhone safer. If only one website renderer is used, you only need to find a zero-day in that one renderer to potentially infect all iPhones. Now that other web engines are going to be permitted, attackers will have to contend with multiple web engines. And you as user can choose to use a smaller web engine like Gecko in order to decrease the likelihood of being successfully attacked.