[edandersen]

Presuming Apple left PWAs in just as they were with no changes, i.e. hardcoded to Safari, wouldn't Mozilla (and potentially MS) have immediately sued or complained that Apple was in violation of the DMA by not allowing their browser engines to launch from user added home screen icons?

If this is the case then leaving PWAs as they stood risked bazillions in fines from the EU. No?

[szasamasa]

the right way would have been:

1. pay some macOS developers if iOS developers are that bad and implement necessary changes on a weekend since both OS are linux and macOS is capable (and they had years)

2. if Apple wants to play the oh-so-difficult card, they have to prove according to DMA why is it so much of a burden, which they cannot because it is not... still, they could have talked to EU to get an exemption to keep Safari web apps unbroken until they make the necessary changes that every web browser is ready to use web apps on iOS

what they did is to break all iOS web apps because they were only possible in Safari, fight one additional year with EU then allow them again after they lost

is not that evil? they dare this because it is only a minority of their users that uses web apps now...

[SSLy]

Nothing except lack of will stops them from making PWA's accessible to other browsers.

[makeitdouble]

Apple had 15years to deal with alternative browser engines and they buried their head in the sand the whole time while racking in the money. Arguing it's hard to deal with all the cases within a few months is just giving them excuses for dragging their feet for so long.