iOS 17.4 will be one of the most disruptive releases iOS in its history. This is because it will make it possible to install applications on iPhones from sources other than the European Union. App Store along with a number of other similar concessions required by the new digital markets law adopted by the European Union. And how minibarely in beta iOS 17.4, which are already out, shows what opening the system will bring miniThere is at least one limitation to the currently working option. We are talking specifically about web applications.
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Until now, developers have resorted to creating a web application if they Apple refused to approve their application in the classic version for App Store for example, because its terms and conditions prohibited a given type, etc. So far, game streaming services have functioned as web applications, for example, which are App Store they did not get it precisely because of its strict rules. However, this has now changed with the arrival of iOS 17.4 will change, because Apple firstly by changing the rules App Store allows game streaming services to enter with full functionality iOS applications and, on the other hand, developers could solve everything "on their own terms" through an alternative app store, in which they would place the streaming application. It is precisely because of these possibilities that Apple apparently decided to end support for web applications with the arrival of iOS 17.4.
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Users who have used web applications so far report that after installing the first two betas iOS 17.4, these types of applications cannot be added to the home screen of their iPhone and, what's more, the existing ones can no longer be launched. In a way, however, this is not surprising. Compared to classic applications, web applications were somewhat limited, and therefore it always made much more sense for users to reach for those from App Store, if possible. By cutting out this type of application, Apple will to some extent attempt to improve the level of software that iPhonech will run.
This is a big step backwards for me. I use web shortcuts for specific security cameras so I don't have to first launch the camera management app and then select the ones I want. This is how it breaks and I get the message "App” will open in your default browser from now on. And when I press Open, the configuration web page for how to put the application on the desktop will appear.
Do not install 17.4 here and stay on 17.3
As a web developer I say this is total bullshit. It is not always possible to invest in the development of a classic application, and a web application is a relatively simple way to make a kind of half way. Apple is really a total cesspool and your effort to defend their senseless actions at all costs is really a huge desperation.
Agree 👍
It's something for something. The EU has forced an alternative Store, ok, if this option is disabled by default, I will accept it with gritted teeth (and I will hope that it will be removed again soon), but in return, the option that limits the real App Store to some extent circumvented. Ok, let the developers have their way app to the alternative store and let those five "brave" or rather ignorant people download it.
One of the good features is security, so for applications outside of the official App Store personally from a high place.
Exactly 👍🏻
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Konetch!
They always call me when a "Appka" or part of it and then I find out that it's just another panel in Chrome. If they can't program in C or assembler, they shouldn't stuff their content on us like an application.
Well, that's an opinion :-/. There is no need to make a complex application for everything, which must be updated, developed, holes removed, etc. I have, for example, a lot of different weather on my desktop, and if it doesn't work, I really won't install the weather 10 times... and this way I also have faceshit and others... .for me and a lot of small developers a hell of a step back I can't believe it Apple It really cuts and if it does, then let the idiots goancand actually already…