There seems to be confusion about how, exactly, Apple keeps the web second-class on iOS. Understandable! It's the interplay of several interlocking effects. Let's examine them (thread).https://twitter.com/slightlylate/status/1190665796717957120 …
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First, no matter how app-like it is, Section 4.2 of the App Store Review Guidelines excludes web experiences from being discovered via the search box where users go to add things to their homescreen. Structural prejudice against the web by policy: https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#4.2 …pic.twitter.com/SViQETHtUF
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Replying to @slightlylate
If you are packaged web app, just be a web app. The last thing user need is to have the App Store be spammed with every web site in the world. And people already have a good search engine for that.
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I'm struggling to find an argument in this response. Is your position that app stores can't handle scale, so let's not ask them to? That centralisation is beneficial to users ipso facto? Or that technology prejudice is ok so long as it's web developers that lose?
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Or perhaps it's that excluding the web from the surface where users find things to install (and re-engage from by tap) is ok because typing on phones is easy?
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