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Now Apple says it won’t disable iPhone web apps in the EU
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this post was submitted on 01 Mar 2024
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Web apps are a great way for Apple to cut App Store overhead and poor quality listings. Being able to refuse copycat apps, and things that are obviously just app wrappers around a website by telling the dev to “ship it as a web app instead” gives Apple an out.
It also means they can point to web apps as App Store competition, giving them ammo to fight off “monopoly” claims.
Yes, yet they decided to retaliate against the EU by cutting them.