On: Wordle is being punished by app stores for choosing the open web

[gunapologist99]

> Apple has a longstanding history of intentionally ignoring or degrading open web technologies that could compete with its incredibly successful, lucrative, closed app store. Progressive web apps (PWA), a set of standards that allow websites to function similarly to native apps, are only half-heartedly supported, broken, or plain ignored on iOS and iPadOS.

Web push, webRTC - why does Apple actively undermine the open web, where browsers offer far greater privacy than apps from an app store?

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Because privacy, after all, is just another PR word. What Apple is really after is that app store money and an even more closed up ecosystem.