Apple going to intentionally kneecap the web: PWAs

Remember the days that Apple used to pitch itself as David in the David and Goliath stories? Well, over the years, the tables have turned as safari has become like the IE of Old. Apple, in a short number of days, are going to intentionally kill off PWA support.

It seems more and more I've been posting about the web getting worse rather than better, but this affects developers, businesses and users.

When the documentation eventually emerged, Apple not only intentionally confused readers as to the reasoning, but also lied, and not just a little lie, just outright lied.

Alex Russell has an brilliant (if a little snarky) long form piece that explains the reality of what's going on. So rather than giving me the views, take 20 minutes of your day and read it.

What can I do?

There's three things you can do to help to attempt to fight back against the decisions being made by Apple:

1. Sign the open letter to Tim Cook
2. Blog, journal, bookface, link it in?, tweet (or X…?) - it doesn't have to be long, but the more we can do to spread awareness the better.
3. Try and explain to your aunt that's scared of technology.

Safari has long held users back. If Apple succeed here, they'll have delivered a heavy blow to the open web (and frankly, some decent choices for your phones).

Don't just read this: fight back