<story><title>Apple approves previously rejected HKMap.live app</title><url>https://twitter.com/hkmaplive/status/1180137132842610688</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>threeseed</author><text>It is trivial to add a website to the home screen.&lt;p&gt;Just two clicks. One for share button. One to add to home screen.</text></item><item><author>cglong</author><text>Even proper support on iOS for Progressive Web Apps would help bridge this gap. On Android, you can go to a URL and receive a prompt to &amp;quot;install&amp;quot; it on your home screen. iOS keeps burying their equivalent more with each release and imposes way too many restrictions to web apps make it an alternative to the iOS App Store.</text></item><item><author>burtonator</author><text>The fact that we can&amp;#x27;t side-load apps is a tragedy.  Any anti-trust investigation into Apple + Google should discuss this it&amp;#x27;s highly anti-competitive.&lt;p&gt;I get that they want a sanitary app store but if I go to myapp.com I should be able to side load.&lt;p&gt;It would also be nice to side-load from phone to phone in situations like this so that apps can&amp;#x27;t be blocked by governments like China.&lt;p&gt;If the apps just verified keys that would be enough so that you know you&amp;#x27;re installing the app from the right developer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coder543</author><text>Unfortunately, iOS does not support web push notifications like Android (and practically every desktop browser including Safari on macOS), which is a huge limitation.&lt;p&gt;Not supporting notifications at all is a dealbreaker for most apps that could just be PWAs.&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, last I checked, iOS doesn’t allow PWAs added to the home screen to access the camera or certain other valuable things that they should be able to access, but maybe that has finally been fixed.&lt;p&gt;Apple has intentionally made PWAs a bad experience to push people to the App Store, which is really unfortunate since they basically invented the concept of adding a website to your home screen that would then open in a chromeless experience that felt like an app.</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple approves previously rejected HKMap.live app</title><url>https://twitter.com/hkmaplive/status/1180137132842610688</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>threeseed</author><text>It is trivial to add a website to the home screen.&lt;p&gt;Just two clicks. One for share button. One to add to home screen.</text></item><item><author>cglong</author><text>Even proper support on iOS for Progressive Web Apps would help bridge this gap. On Android, you can go to a URL and receive a prompt to &amp;quot;install&amp;quot; it on your home screen. iOS keeps burying their equivalent more with each release and imposes way too many restrictions to web apps make it an alternative to the iOS App Store.</text></item><item><author>burtonator</author><text>The fact that we can&amp;#x27;t side-load apps is a tragedy.  Any anti-trust investigation into Apple + Google should discuss this it&amp;#x27;s highly anti-competitive.&lt;p&gt;I get that they want a sanitary app store but if I go to myapp.com I should be able to side load.&lt;p&gt;It would also be nice to side-load from phone to phone in situations like this so that apps can&amp;#x27;t be blocked by governments like China.&lt;p&gt;If the apps just verified keys that would be enough so that you know you&amp;#x27;re installing the app from the right developer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Nullabillity</author><text>Yes. Because that&amp;#x27;s exactly the place where users would look for the install option. Apple&amp;#x27;s finest UX people at work, here.</text></comment>