Post #968244
2026-02-20 13:35 UTC
Replies (5)
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@corvus_ch@social.corvus-ch.name 2026-02-20 17:23
@kp@mastodon.design following the chain of why: why is this a thing at all?
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@siguza@infosec.space 2026-02-20 19:03
@kp@mastodon.design because MobileSafari doesn't implement the necessary APIs. Because if it did, many devs would ditch the Apple Tax. 😐
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@_the_cloud@mastodon.social 2026-02-20 19:28
@kp@mastodon.design One answer to this question: because a native iOS app provides more flexibility* than MobileSafari would give to a website. * "flexibility" can mean the ability to control the user experience, but it can also mean the ability to gather and/or exfiltrate more data.
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@younata@hachyderm.io 2026-02-20 21:18
@kp@mastodon.design for a less-nefarious reason: because users have been trained to trust apps more than websites on mobile devices. At a previous company, they had a full-featured iOS app, but the Android app was literally a webview. They did that because customers kept using unofficial Android apps from the play store (which the company didn’t like because they wanted to prevent possible fraud. They just didn’t want that badly enough to write a native Android app)
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@philsplace@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-02-20 22:00
@kp@mastodon.design Come live in Montana, walk outside past your wifi… and see how that works out for you. Anything not in a flat part of town or the highway is a big ol’ “SOS” for cell coverage. (Wyoming was the same way when I lived there)