<story><title>Microsoft and Google collaborate to make PWAs better</title><url>https://medium.com/pwabuilder/microsoft-and-google-team-up-to-make-pwas-better-in-the-play-store-b59710e487</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Abishek_Muthian</author><text>Nice, I like the way Microsoft chose to ignore the bad blood with Google regarding its apps for Windows Phone and has embraced Android.&lt;p&gt;PWA collaboration seems to be a step in the right direction, especially since Edge is using chromium and Microsoft seems to be building great PWA apps[1].&lt;p&gt;Although I&amp;#x27;m not entirely sure about Google&amp;#x27;s end game with PWA[2], I hope these kind of collaboration motivates industries to build more PWA apps and put pressure on Apple to properly support PWA APIs in Safari; then may be, just may be one day we&amp;#x27;ll have fair grounds for new mobile operating systems to compete without this Playstore&amp;#x2F;Appstore duopoly.&lt;p&gt;[1]&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bing.com&amp;#x2F;covid&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bing.com&amp;#x2F;covid&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2]&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=23574697&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=23574697&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>osrec</author><text>I agree. Apple is stifling innovation by not supporting certain APIs.&lt;p&gt;They need to stop doing this, or they will hurt themselves in the long run. As it is, most people use Safari on iOS because they are forced to - all other browsers on iOS are forced to use WKWebView, which basically means they are wrappers around Safari&amp;#x27;s view.&lt;p&gt;To this day, I can&amp;#x27;t understand why their users stand for this. In this regard, Apple reminds me of a cult leader brainwashing their followers into believing the cult&amp;#x27;s way is the best way. Makes me a little sick actually.</text></comment>
<story><title>Microsoft and Google collaborate to make PWAs better</title><url>https://medium.com/pwabuilder/microsoft-and-google-team-up-to-make-pwas-better-in-the-play-store-b59710e487</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Abishek_Muthian</author><text>Nice, I like the way Microsoft chose to ignore the bad blood with Google regarding its apps for Windows Phone and has embraced Android.&lt;p&gt;PWA collaboration seems to be a step in the right direction, especially since Edge is using chromium and Microsoft seems to be building great PWA apps[1].&lt;p&gt;Although I&amp;#x27;m not entirely sure about Google&amp;#x27;s end game with PWA[2], I hope these kind of collaboration motivates industries to build more PWA apps and put pressure on Apple to properly support PWA APIs in Safari; then may be, just may be one day we&amp;#x27;ll have fair grounds for new mobile operating systems to compete without this Playstore&amp;#x2F;Appstore duopoly.&lt;p&gt;[1]&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bing.com&amp;#x2F;covid&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bing.com&amp;#x2F;covid&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2]&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=23574697&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=23574697&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paxys</author><text>New leadership definitely helps. Satya seems to want to move past the old way of doing things at Microsoft as aggressively as possible.</text></comment>