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Bruce Lawson ✅ (quiet time)

CMA final decision in its investigation into mobile ecosystem is just in: "In particular, Apple’s rules appear to be holding back a category of apps known as ‘progressive web apps’ (PWAs) that are lower cost and easier for developers to build since they can run on any operating system … Many smaller UK app developers told us that limits on web apps are holding back their business because they could be developing PWAs as a comparable and lower cost alternative to developing a native app." assets.publishing.service.gov. (PDF, 18 pages)

"alternative browser engines perform
similarly to WebKit on security outcomes and that Apple’s current restriction
actually prevents mobile browsers competing and innovating on security and
privacy features, for example by implementing security updates more frequently than Apple’s architecture currently allows." (Related: social.vivaldi.net/@brucelawso)