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The tech press are Tim levels of cooked. Absolutely nowhere will you see any mention of web apps and PWAs as an alternative to censorious native app stores (I looked), and that's a bloody scandal.

Amyville Hoyrror

@amyhoy.bsky.social

3 Oct 2025

i had thought the same thing jobs didn’t even want an app store originally. but the web wasn’t up to it. and it is now.

Alex Russell

@infrequently.org

I mean, query *why* the web wasn't up to it (APIs Apple could have added), and why it caught up. Cupertino gave up on the web as soon as the App Store model took off; money too juicy to turn down, and rubished it as a competitor as soon as that happened: infrequently.org/2025/09/apples-a…

infrequently.orgApple's Antitrust Playbook - Infrequently NotedApple wants to launder the consequences of its own anticompetitive, anti-user choices through a credulous tech press. The goal is to frame regulators for Apple's own deeds, and it's rotten to the core...

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