Apple is officially dropping iPhone support for web apps in the EU - The Verge

Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.world to Technology@lemmy.world – 654 points – Yep, Apple’s breaking iPhone web apps in the EU
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Apple being Apple again. Just why does anyone actually like that company?

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where the colour of the text bubble is important for reasons that defy logic.

That's just a thing tweens and teens do, it's just like when kids were obsessed with expensive shoes when I was a kid and would ostracize the kids who couldn't afford them. No sane adult I have ever met gave a shit about my text bubbles.

That's half-true. No adults I voluntarily associate with care what brand of phone anybody else has in theory, but a lot of the iPhone owners are vehemently unwilling to install any third-party messaging apps. That means:

  • Messaging about anything where security is important is a problem. Most people don't have big secrets, but sending things that could be used for identity theft isn't terribly rare.
  • Exchanging high-quality media is impossible.
  • People will exclude non-iPhone users from group chats because falling back to MMS is a bad experience for everyone.
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