No but a lot will start building PWAs wherever they can instead because they no longer need to write an entire second copy of their app that only runs in one place and can’t share code and they don’t have to just pay 30% of their revenue to someone for no good reason.
Trust me, Apple pissing off developers is absolutely going to have serious implications for them.
What was stopping companies from doing PWAs before? Were they not annoyed at 30% cut? Was the cost of maintaining a separate app for a single platform too small to care about?
Lack of support from Apple's monopoly iPhone browser engine Safari. It didn't even get notification support until 2 years ago. And then there was a recent attempt by Apple to remove PWAs altogether from iOS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39299007
Apple was and is stopping companies from doing PWAs.
They care about their own accounts being deleted over some disagreement. The risk of having your account banned changes how you invest in the platform.
> They care about their own accounts being deleted over some disagreement. The risk of having your account banned changes how you invest in the platform.
I wish it did but it really doesn't. You can see countless "I lost my google account for a random reason" and yet everyone I know has a google account and probably uses gmail.
And the revenue makes the most sense on ios for a large share of developers.
95%+ of developers don't care if Apple doesn't allow Epic on their store. That's just reality.
If my boss tells me "we're launching an ios app" I'm not going to tell him about how I disagree with Apples principles and refuse to build it.