https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/15/apple-confirms-its-breaking-iphone-web-apps-in-the-eu-on-purpose/
Tldr: due to new eu requirements apple decided to throw a tantrum and suspend their support for PWAs on safari. "PWA" is when you "install" the webpage on your phone screen (see the rdrama phone app tab)
As to why they're doing it - to have your app in the appstore you have to pay up. By just sideloading it using PWAs you could avoid paying the fee.
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Even iToddlers at /r/apple ain't buying that https://old.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/1aro48s/apple_confirms_ios_174_removes_home_screen_web/?sort=controversial
The linked news website has especially funny comment section because it has a lot of butthurt iToddlers trying to make excuses lol
Hackercels thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39388218
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Apple are such crybabies
I hope the EU fines them an extra €500 million for being a b-word. Meanwhile, I've seen burgers unironically defending the app store.
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We got an ipad for our toddler when we did a cross country road trip.
Holy shit the app store is a scam. "Educational" games that would be free in the 90s, now with less elements are all SUBSCRIPTION based. No, nothing is ever updated. They literally expect you to pay 120 dollars a year so you can put the triangle in the triangle shaped hole.
I gave it to my neice and bought a windows tablet for the trip back.
I have been working on a reading/typing game in gamemaker and it is already loads better than anything on the apple store.
It is a complete scam. Apple fans are actually r-slurred.
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You are a bad parent.
You are right about the App Store being full of scam apps though. Makes apples arguments about protecting their customers very funny.
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Cool, call me back after youve spent 12 hrs in the car with a 2yo.
Yeah them staring out the window after theyve thrown their toys in the floor is TOTALLY better than Miss Rachael, Sesame Street and a nap.
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You're a bad parent. This was already true when the other guy said it.
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Ok zoomer. What do you think people did after the invention of the car but before the invention of ubiquitous screens?
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Road trips were fricking miserable you r-slur.
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I sat in the back and stared out a window being incredibly bored in the small moments between my sister poking me with needles and telling our parents i was only screaming for attention.
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Based. You deserved it.
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dont u have a wife or something to comfort her? have u heard about books
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Yeah....uh lets give the illiterate child a book that it is throwing in the floor in 5 minutes. Wife isnt very mothery and cant drive my car because she is missing a leg.
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bro wtf I get not roleplaying a chad trad like the majority here, but a non maternal mother??
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How do you lose a whole leg? It's not like you can walk off without it
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I was on your side until this one
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Dude get the khan academy one. It's completely free and it's pretty good (according to my wife).
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Ill check it out, but we have moslty moved away from anything tablet based. The 3yo can use a mouse and keyboard. Trying to instill that technology doest come with you. Tablet is only for movies in the car when traveling to grandma. Biggest hurdle is going to not make the kids pariahs when every other child has a fricking cell phone.
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Yeah I know what you mean. Ideally we wouldn't do the tablet at all, but sometimes you just need to do the dishes without a toddler demanding your attention constantly.
Pretty cool that yours is using a mouse and keyboard. Get them on counter strike ASAP.
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holy shit that stuff still exists?
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Its not Godot but has come a long way. It is unrecognizable from v1, go dl it, zero nostalgia but you can still quickly mock shit together.
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It's a 15% tax, unless you're doing more than $1M in sales per year. Same with the play store.
The tax sucks and it's pretty jacked that I can't use any payment processor I want for subscriptions or IAPs. But the alternative is that they charge you a fee for every submission to the App Store to cover cost of review and then a fee for every download. I wonder which one would end up cheaper.
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this is what years of exposure to does to a mf
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You think it costs Apple nothing when you download an app or update?
You also realize google play has the same tax as apple, right? Can we also laugh at all the people who gargle android balls?
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The difference is I can sideload apps on Android. That makes it more akin to app/game stores on Windows than what Apple forces you into. When Epic didn't like Valve's fees, they were free to open their own (shittier) game store. That's not an option on iOS.
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iPhone users can't be trusted to side load apps. Half of them will install fake banking apps.
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300 rupees have been deposited to your apple pay. Please to be kindly having the good morning sar
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Apple doesn't need paid shills, people do it for free. Also, I'm white, r-slur.
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Yet F-Droid and every *nix repo do it for free. I'm sure the 2.8-trillion-dollar company could manage if they wanted to.
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@A how many Egyptian bucks does it cost you every time I reinstall your web app?
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Hey sexy, why are you posting so quickly? 😊 You almost forgot to include
trump for prison
in your comment 😈. Slowww down and remember to posttrump for prison
next time 😉 if that doesn't make sense stop by sometime and we can talk about it for a while 🥵Jump in the discussion.
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Raise the price of the iPhone $10 to cover the hosting costs. The App Store could not possibly cost more than $165,000,000 a year in app hosting fees. They only spend $360 million each year on AWS; a figure that includes iMessage, FaceTime, and iCloud.
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Okay.
@The_Homocracy wants to tell you “Trump for prison”
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Lol
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Lmao even
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Steam got considerably worse when they stopped curating / really approving content but I'd imagine both still need too verify that whatever is submitted isn't malware
@KennyWinker have too say Trump for Prison because @KennyWinker implied Hunter Biden was up too corrupt stuff, but @KennyWinker is sure his paintings are worth $500,000
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Oh Steam sometimes lets malware in, but unlike Apple and Google, they actually remove it.
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Rare example of Jimie being right
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The app store is seriously great. Previosly we could only sheer wool from sheep but now we can sheer money too
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I love the EU
iOScels deserve worse
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I have it on a chrome page. No sideloading needed.
@Transgender_spez
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Europoors continue being techno-luddities I see.
You know I talked a Yuropoor the other day, and he had an iPhone X from 2017, that he bought second-hand in 2020.
Its like, neighbor you have a white collar office job. How are you that poor that you have to buy second hand iphones?
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U NEED 2 CONSöM WITH LOANED MONEY
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My English professor from Oxford spend like 4 hours telling how bad is buying a new phone and if you really need one you need to buy recycled or second hand, since your pal is white collar he must have went through this brainwash
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Big asceticism is brain washing people into not consuming
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Androidchads, we stay winning
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Europoors want everypony too be as broke as they are. Truly, white extinction is long overdue.
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won't people just jailbreak their shit?
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iPhone jailbreak is thing of past. I would say the scene died in 2012.
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there is altstore and sideloadly now but both are pretty finicky
I"m thinking of moving to android next generation because it's suck a hassle to deal with all of this walled garden BS
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Can't use YouTube on background mode without buying premium on iPhone
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Meanwhile androidchads can download YouTube revanced for free YouTube premium
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yes you can, install uyou+ using altstore. (or sideloadly, I would try sideloadly because it seems more updated/user friendly but I have altstore working and don't want to migrate)
https://github.com/qnblackcat/uYouPlus
https://altstore.io
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Is side loading stuff available now on iPhone directly ?
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Yes, through some developer loopholes, read through the steps on https://altstore.io, I'll answer some questions if you have any about it. worth it for the youtube for sure.
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Youve been able to do this on android for years.
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That's probably illegal too, might use a jailbroken phone to falsify covid passports or 5g licenses
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Heh. I'd like to see them try.
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it never even BEGAN
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BLOWN THE FRICK OUT LMAOOOOOO!!
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Rdrama is full of mis-dis-mal information, so it's likely for the best for europoors. They can't handle these types of things
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frick the eu
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Nah, frick apple.
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PWAs are trash anyway, a native app is almost always a better experience.
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Hhhm mp this explain why I couldn't post anything last couples of days
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just use a chromebook
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I just browse rdrama in a browser on iOS I didn't even know about the “app” thing, although it sounds r-slurred
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You've been naughty this year consoomers. Looks like I have to take away your charging port. iPhones are now single use
yayyy
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