The Open Web Advocacy group needs information to give to the European Commission and Apple about how much of an impact not allowing full featured Web Apps on iOS has. Fill out a survey by the 9th of March to prevent a two class developer ecosystem.

The European Union is enforcing its Digital Markets Act and Apple aren’t happy about it.

This should have been a great thing - more browser choice on iOS and distribution via URL. But instead it means you can't publish full feature Web Apps on iOS - you stay within the browser and it's limits.

The Open Web Advocacy group has all the details what that means for developers, but,  even more importantly, they ask EU companies and developers to give them information by the 9th of March to show to Apple and the EU commission to prevent this.

So fill out this survey if you want to stay a first class Apple developer although you are in the EU.

We met with Bruce Lawson of the OWA and Web App expert Ben Francis to discuss this in a special "Coffee with developers". Check it out on YouTube.

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Here's some more info about this:

• The state of PWAs on iOS wasn't good to start with as explained in Web Push on iOS - 1 year in and PWAs wont replace native iOS apps.
• Game developers face the fact that Apple effectively kills numerous browser games in the EU.
• The Register claims that Apple broke web apps in iOS 17 beta and that Apple makes it official: No EU Home Screen web apps.
• 9 to 5 Mac tries to explain why that is and Jeremy Keith shows the effect on web developers.

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