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Wow. I have no words. This is quite something, even for Apple.

> to comply with the DMA’s requirements, we had to remove the Home Screen web apps feature in the EU. [...] Still, we regret any impact this change [...] may have.

Regrets all the way to the bank. I'm sure it has nothing to do with the Core Technology Fee whatsoever.

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To be fair, not even Firefox (desktop) can be bothered to support PWA.

PWA is, as an honest assessment, dead. It was a neat idea - kind of like BeOS or Amiga - but it's dead.

My personal take is this is because PWA had too little to define itself to the everyday Joe with. The appeal of PWA was primarily to developers - because then they wouldn't need to build apps or pay fees. What appeals to developers though, doesn't have any intrinsic appeal to Joe.

That may be so, but why did Apple start providing Safari/macOS support for PWAs less than half a year ago with the latest macOS launch then? They clearly care about it a little bit.

I wouldn’t say that they cared. I say that they begrudgingly were being dragged towards supporting PWA functionality, and now they have a strong case to stop being dragged in that direction.

I haven't used PWAs on mobile much, but use them a lot on desktop. They're very useful things.

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