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marcellus23 on Jan 28, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Dozens of U.S. states say Apple stifles competitio...

Or the app could just be offered as a web app.

commoner on Jan 28, 2022 [–]

That would be a fine option if it were fully supported by Safari. This excludes all web apps that require push notifications (including a hypothetical web app for Signal in China) until Safari implements the Push API on iOS. Safari would also need a web telephony API to answer calls for feature parity with the native Signal app.

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