Apple, Lawsuit & the innovative web
Why Apple needs to be sued for the web to get better..
Last week, US sued Apple for anti-competivie practices. And I want to talk about it. As a Power Platform and AI Dev. Here's why this is important for us.
Apple has been holding back the open Web for a while. They have been making Safari the default web engine for the most profitable Operating System, the iOS ecosystem. For those who don't know, any browser on iPhones and iPads is basically Safari under the hood. On any other platform, it is very easy. On android, on Windows, on MacOS, etc. Because of them, Web Apps have been held back by a significant margin. They can't do push notifications on Safari or access the file system. This stops apps like the ones built on top of Power Apps to need native apps to do these things. And apple has an incentive to keep doing so. A 10 Billion $ per year incentive to push web apps towards the App Store which there is only one of in iOS. I hope this lawsuit addresses this and releases the app store and Safari from Apple's control. This means better app experience via web apps and less need for native apps.
Apple doesn't allow superapps. This means complex Power Apps that act as SuperApps are hard to be published in the App Store.
Purchases on the App Store: Apple takes 30% of cuts from each sale from the App Store. This means ecommerce via natibe apps on iOS is basically dumbed down as devs (even MS) don't want to pay 30% for each new subscriber to their platform. If the App Store were not apple exclusive, other third party apps stores would pop up (like one from Microsoft and Google) which would make it a better experience for consumers.
I feel like the US government is on the money here and hope they can liberate the modern web from the hands of monopolies.
