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Alex Russell
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Chrome Project 🐡 & Web Standards TL; Blink API OWNER Named PWAs w/ @phae; probably making her ☕ DMs open. Tweets my own; press@google.com for official comms.

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    1. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 25 Sep 2019
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      Asked an entire room full of webdevs yesterday if any of them knew that FF/Chrome/Opera/Brave/etc. for iOS weren't allowed to compete on engine quality. Zero hands up.

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    2. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 25 Sep 2019
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      The consequences of being forced into WebKit WebView on iOS are massive. Every browser there faces a Sophie's Choice: fast JS or no netstack pluggability. They all choose not losing benchmarks by a huge amount. And that's only one in the long line of constraints.

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    3. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 25 Sep 2019
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      Alternative browsers on iOS can never *really* be the default. And they can't use their own engines. And they can't use Service Workers, which means no Push Notifications or offline support. And no PWA installability. Etc. etc.

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    4. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 25 Sep 2019
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      Apple dramatically under-invests in WebKit, which means that the richest users have the jankiest web, and switching browsers doesn't help. Business decision makers don't think the web can deliver the experiences they want to give users because, on iOS (which they use), it can't.

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    5. Max Lynch‏Verified account @maxlynch 2 Oct 2019
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      I agree with all of this but have to say that Apple has made the web able to reach parity with native in terms of performance. In a way that has given the web a huge lifeline. We see this every day with just how capable iOS is for performant web apps compared to Android

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    6. Max Lynch‏Verified account @maxlynch 2 Oct 2019
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      If it wasn’t for that, Ionic wouldn’t work, and that would mean (millions?) of fewer web apps in the App Store. That would suck

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    7. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 2 Oct 2019
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      Technically, Apple doesn't allow *any* web apps in their store. Actively hostile to the real web vs. their owned-and-operated closed stack.

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    8. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 2 Oct 2019
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      Literal anti-web policy: https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#minimum-functionality …

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    9. Max Lynch‏Verified account @maxlynch 2 Oct 2019
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      More like an anti-packaging up a website that doesn’t look nor feel like an app and requires an internet connection to run in the first place (as opposed to being bundled in the binary)

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      Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 2 Oct 2019
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      ...and they aren't collaborating on the Web Packaging design AFAICT. If you wanted to make the optimistic case for their motives, you've gotta ignore basically all of the past decade and current state.

      9:44 AM - 2 Oct 2019
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