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Yep, Apple’s breaking iPhone web apps in the EU
(www.theverge.com)
Cutting nose to spite face it seems.
The only reason I spend extra for Apple is the security.
If the EU takes that, their entire business model is gone.
How's apple more secure?
They make no money by requiring their web engine be used.
What they get is a phone where they prevent apps from snooping around other apps and secretly taking over the camera and microphone.
Here is a Wikipedia page that explains their long fight over encryption.
The EU regs just eliminated all of this protection in the name of commerce, but the big winners are the spy agencies and hackers.
You know you can just stick to the app store if you're worried about that, right?
No, the point is that the EU is requiring that Apple comprise the security in the name of letting users choose what they want.
No, they are not requiring that at all.
even though Android phones have offered web apps with different types of browsers for years.
Notice they didn’t say “and there are no incidences of spy software gaining access to their phones because of the lower security”
It's a glorified website. I don't see anyone being afraid of infecting their devices by simply visiting a url
You rely on the page generator to only generate pages.
The EU is requiring Apple to let potentially bad actors loose.
There is no way to prevent them from stealing your information or other back actions.
If anything, it makes the iPhone safer. If only one website renderer is used, you only need to find a zero-day in that one renderer to potentially infect all iPhones. Now that other web engines are going to be permitted, attackers will have to contend with multiple web engines. And you as user can choose to use a smaller web engine like Gecko in order to decrease the likelihood of being successfully attacked.
"Tell me you don't understand web apps without telling me you don't understand web apps"
this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2024
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