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🗓️ 22 February 2024
⏱️ 79 minutes
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The Apple news cycle continues apace this week, with the company launching a brand new app, Sports, for sports scores. The iPhone 15 battery is now rated for twice as many charge cycles, along with a redesigned Battery UI in iOS 17.4. Apple is reportedly planning new AI features for both Spotlight search and Xcode code completion, and the EU readies a $500 million fine for Apple’s anticompetitive behavior in music streaming market. Benjamin and Chance break down all that and more in this week’s episode.
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Chance Miller
Benjamin Mayo
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0:00.0 | Mayo do you have any progressive web apps saved your iPhone's home screen? |
0:05.0 | Uh, no. Me or I have one. It's for the Xbox Cloud Gaming website, |
0:11.0 | which we'll actually talk about more later too. But for now, |
0:15.0 | Apple has confirmed that iOS 17.4 in the European Union removes support for |
0:20.6 | progressive web apps or as Apple calls them home screen web apps. |
0:24.7 | Apple says that this is basically a byproduct of the Digital Markets Act saying |
0:30.2 | that they would have had to build a system to allow third-party web engine |
0:34.8 | browsers to also have home screen web apps and they could not do that. |
0:38.6 | Well they didn't want to. |
0:40.0 | Well they said that they could do it. |
0:41.6 | They didn't, their quote is that that was not practical to undertake |
0:46.1 | given the other demands of the DMA |
0:48.6 | and the very low adoption of home screen web apps. |
0:52.2 | I think most of this actually just boils down to the |
0:54.1 | DMA's requirement that all browsers have equality. So if Safari |
0:59.2 | can't have Home Screen web apps, if third-party browser engine apps like whatever Google or |
1:05.3 | Mozilla is working on also can't have home screen web apps. |
1:09.0 | Yeah so rather than everybody getting it nobody gets it. And that's okay. |
1:14.6 | Yeah, so when this story went up, |
1:16.3 | there was some pushback from like Android, |
1:20.1 | the Android camp, like, oh, we've had progressive web apps from any browser for |
1:24.4 | Donkeys years or whatever on Android and I'm sure you do in the Apple case I think they |
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