Developers fighting self-serving restrictions imposed on the web by tech giants. Help us end the #AppleBrowserBan & make web apps 1st-class citizens everywhere.
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Last Notes npub1kn4yzxru7ms44j86faup3erm0mz5fxly8j3t8lwvlr70nztekxsses3asa Open Web Advocacy 5. Direct Install for Browsers, No AppStore middle men controlling and taxing the web. npub1kn4yzxru7ms44j86faup3erm0mz5fxly8j3t8lwvlr70nztekxsses3asa Open Web Advocacy What needs improving? npub1kn4yzxru7ms44j86faup3erm0mz5fxly8j3t8lwvlr70nztekxsses3asa Open Web Advocacy Last chance to write to the UK regulator about Browsers and Web Apps 🚨 Due Thursday 29th August. npub1kn4yzxru7ms44j86faup3erm0mz5fxly8j3t8lwvlr70nztekxsses3asa Open Web Advocacy El Reg dives into both Apple's browser choice changes in the EU and concerns the remedies that would enable Web App competition in the UK's Browsers and Cloud market investigation reference might not be malicious compliance proof. npub1kn4yzxru7ms44j86faup3erm0mz5fxly8j3t8lwvlr70nztekxsses3asa Open Web Advocacy amazing! 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The reason that Apple doesn't allow that to happen, is because the Web is now the most powerful application distribution mechanism that has ever existed and if you bring that to the iPad, the App Store goes away." npub1kn4yzxru7ms44j86faup3erm0mz5fxly8j3t8lwvlr70nztekxsses3asa Open Web Advocacy It's not practical in many cases to rely on the simulator for testing. Bugs can occur only on real devices, and it can be really hard to test responsiveness to input on simulators or remote testing. npub1kn4yzxru7ms44j86faup3erm0mz5fxly8j3t8lwvlr70nztekxsses3asa Open Web Advocacy One of the aims when we started was to ensure Safari got a bigger budget... hopefully with competition it will continue to increase! npub1kn4yzxru7ms44j86faup3erm0mz5fxly8j3t8lwvlr70nztekxsses3asa Open Web Advocacy For some cases simulator or remote testing would be ok, but there are many cases that you need a real device. 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