Homogenizing the icons is a form style over substance — giving up said advantages to make the whole look 'prettier'.
xOS '27 basically miseducates users into doing that by offering to give the Dock or Home Screen icons of the same color.
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xOS '27 basically miseducates users into doing that by offering to give the Dock or Home Screen icons of the same color.
And there goes the merit of your rant
Just a cryptic “do this”
How so?
https://gist.github.com/mcollina/b294a6c39ee700d24073c0e5a4e...
If enough people were hitting that wall in that SaaS you mention, the SaaS would've fixed it. The barrier of starting over with a custom solution, leaving behind a SaaS they've become accustomed to, is an unlikely choice. They'd rather just come up with a convenient workaround, and briefly look at competing products.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Push_API
> hence the "your app could have been a webpage" charge
No debate there. I was responding to the ever vague and broad "they want" comments.
All examples of first party social media clients.
A minority of native app developers, I'm willing to bet.
- No waiting for a page to load
- Home screen access (most don't know about bookmarking web apps)
- Discovery (where do you go to find PWAs?)
- Features (native apps have access to more platform APIs)
- Absence of browser chrome (more immersive UX), though on iOS the chrome can be removed from PWAs once bookmarked, using meta tags
The point I'm trying to make that these ever-prevalent 'they just want' remarks are superficial, uninformed, overly broad, and vague, to the point of having no point.
There are many benefits to native apps over web apps on mobile devices, depending on the use case. A conspiracy against the people need not be part of every developer's choice to utilize the native platform and associated app store for distribution.
I know there's lots of horrible companies out there (hi Meta!) who will drive you to their native apps just for performance of ads and 'engagement'. This doesn't justify the conspiracy thinking getting applied to native apps as a whole.
Like the OS native APIs that offer the very utility for these apps to even exist?
Integration with OS features is what made the app ecosystem, because of utility. Project whatever conspiracy on that you want.
Simple fact is that people love to project evil incentives onto entities they don't even bother defining.
Not every native app developer is a 'massive company' with a 'vested interest' (what does that even mean) in monetizing your attention and data.
Vinegar is a Safari extension that fixes that on iOS and macOS. May exist for other browsers as well.
Who are 'they' and how do you know what they want
Did a quick check on Amsterdam: https://gbfs-validator.mobilitydata.org/visualization?url=ht...
This also exceeds the supposed 600 max per service provider. That said I'm not sure I'd have time to maintain a derivative site.
I agree that the follow up with the legislator is what makes this interesting. I'd even suggest making sharing that correspondence on your site a feature. Your outgoing link on the site to the regional press doesn't quite seem to cover that.