Mobile OSes and their most successful apps have drained browser choice of meaning for more than a decade. This has lead to confusion for users and loss of control over data. Web developers, meanwhile, face higher costs and reduced ability to escape walled gardens. It's time for the charade to end.| Infrequently Noted
Like other meta-platforms **the web thrives or declines to the extent it can accomplish the lion's share of the things we expect most computers to do**. Platform Adjacency Theory explains how to expand in a principled way and what we risk when natural expansion is prevented mechanisms that prevent effective competition.| Infrequently Noted
Brave is releasing a new version of our iOS browser in order to comply with recent stipulations made by Apple.| Brave
Readers may recall that Japan recently passed the Smartphone Act, officially the Bill on the Promotion of Competition for Specified Software Used in Smartphones. Among its most important reforms is a direct prohibition on Apple’s long-standing ban on third-party browser engines on iOS.| Open Web Advocacy
The process of App Store Optimization has many moving parts. Read our guide to learn how to organically attract more users for your app!| Udonis Mobile Marketing Agency
The appeal of the Mac has always been that it’s a great platform for making things. Software is the great equalizer: It’s inexpensive, sometimes even free, and it lets you do things that used to only be possible with expensive, specialized hardware. Software is Andy Warhol’s Coke for creators.| Roben Kleene
The App Store gives people around the world a safe and trusted place to discover apps that meet our high standards for privacy, security and content.| Apple (United Kingdom)
Learn how to perform mobile app localization and translation for any market. Our app localization guide simplifies the process and offers time-saving tips.| centus.com
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications| matrix.org
Submit for Notarization| developer.apple.com
Master mobile app development with our comprehensive guide! Learn key strategies, tools, and best practices for creating successful apps.| Udonis Mobile Marketing Agency
Learn about the technical, content, and design criteria used to review apps.| Apple Developer
Bots and Mini Apps (collectively, “Third Party Apps” or “TPA”) are third party applications that integrate into Telegram…| Telegram
App store success is no easy feat and is best achieved with the right combination of strategies. Read this blog to find out what that looks like.| Yodel Mobile
Learn about using in-app purchase and StoreKit framework to sell items within your apps, like premium content, virtual goods, and subscriptions.| Apple Developer
Free online calorie counter and diet plan. Lose weight by tracking your caloric intake quickly and easily. Find nutrition facts for over 2,000,000 foods.| www.myfitnesspal.com
The volume buttons on the side of your iPhone can do more than just adjust the volume levels for media, ringers, alerts, Siri, and other sounds and voices. You can use them to perform different actions in certain apps and even create custom actions using the Shortcuts app. It's not exactly button mapping, but it's as close as you'll get without jailbreaking iOS.| Gadget Hacks
Apple Search Ads platform is now available in Brazil and eight other Latin American countries. Google Play Store Search tab redesign introduces a persistent bottom bar. AltStore appeared on iOS in Europe. Read the most important news for ASO specialists and app publishers in our latest digest.| Asodesk Blog — Articles, ideas, tips and news about ASO
Payment apps can now accept contactless payments from contactless credit or debit cards, Apple Pay, Apple Watch, and smartphones with other digital wallets — right on iPhone and without any extra terminals or hardware.| Apple Developer
Saagar Jha's website.| saagarjha.com
Users based in the European Union with an iPhone or iPad have the ability to install apps using alternative app marketplaces or web distribution, in addition to the App Store.| Apple Support
The Digital Markets Act (DMA) grace period for gatekeepers to comply has now ended.| Open Web Advocacy
Users based in the European Union with an iPhone or iPad have the ability to install apps using alternative app marketplaces or web distribution, in addition to the App Store.| Apple Support
Cupertino's attempt to scuttle Progressive Web Apps under cover of chaos is exactly what it appears to be: a shocking attempt to keep the web from ever emerging as a true threat to the App Store and blame regulators for Apple's own malicious choices. By hook or by crook, Apple's going to maintain its home screen advantage.| Infrequently Noted
In 2011, Philip Schiller internally sent an email to Eddie Cue to discuss the threat of HTML5 to the Apple App Store titled “HTML5 poses a threat to both Flash and the App Store”.| Open Web Advocacy
LastPass is warning that a fake copy of its app is being distributed on the Apple App Store, likely used as a phishing app to steal users' credentials.| BleepingComputer
# Will Apple ever let browsers and Web Apps compete fairly?| Open Web Advocacy
We have been alerted that Apple has broken Web App (PWA) support in the EU via iOS 17.4 Beta. Sites installed to the homescreen failed to launch in their own top-level activities, opening in Safari instead. This demotes Web Apps from first-class citizens in the OS to mere shortcuts. Developers confirmed the bug did not occur outside the EU.| Open Web Advocacy
Learn how to optimize mobile commerce with mobile-first design, seamless checkout, and personalized experiences to boost customer retention and satisfaction.| BigCommerce
Apple waited until end of business on Friday to send us the formal rejection of the HEY Calendar app. It seems they love to play these little games to try to drown any controversy with the cover of a weekend. But we don’t roll over that easy, so the team worked through the weekend to prepare a new build to appease the App Store’s bully...| world.hey.com
There should at least be a standard of double jeopardy when it comes to the app store monopoly regimes. If you’ve managed to overturn a rejection of your service once, they can’t come after you on the same service again later. We could have used that today! But unfortunately there is no rule of law with the app stores, except that of t...| world.hey.com
Under regulatory pressure, mobile OSes are opening up and adding features that will allow PWAs to disrupt app stores ... Yet with shockingly few exceptions, coverage accepts that the solution to crummy, extractive native app stores will be other native app stores. ... The press fails to mention the web as a sustitute for native apps, and fail to inform readers of its disruptive potential. Why?| Infrequently Noted
In a victory for consumers and developers, London's Court of Appeal has ruled against Apple and in favour of the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), allowing the CMA to reopen their Browser and Cloud Gaming Market Investigation Reference.| Open Web Advocacy
The full Bringing Competition to Walled Gardens report, published by Open Web Advocacy.| Open Web Advocacy
The App Store gives people around the world a safe and trusted place to discover apps that meet our high standards for privacy, security and content.| Apple (Canada)
The App Store gives people around the world a safe and trusted place to discover apps that meet our high standards for privacy, security and content.| Apple (India)
The App Store gives people around the world a safe and trusted place to discover apps that meet our high standards for privacy, security, and content.| Apple
App Store Improvements| developer.apple.com
This PEP proposes adding iOS as a supported platform in CPython. The initial goal is to achieve Tier 3 support for Python 3.13. This PEP describes the technical aspects of the changes that are required to support iOS. It also describes the project manag...| Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPs)
The App Store is designed to be a safe and trusted place for users to discover apps created by talented developers around the world.| Apple Developer
Provide a seamless experience for auto-renewable subscriptions in your apps. You’ll receive more revenue for qualifying subscriptions after one year, have greater pricing flexibility, and more.| Apple Developer
Recent legislation and court cases over the future of online social platforms often focus on regulating speech. Regulating value alignment through design is a better, more robust alternative.| psychoftech.substack.com
Supacharging Supabase Auth with Sign in with Apple on iOS, Single-Sign-On support with SAML 2.0, and PKCE for server-side rendering and mobile auth.| Supabase
Apple still charges a $99 yearly developer fee, even if you don't want to publish your app on the Appstore. The provisioning certificate that Xcode provides only lasts one week.| www.bennettnotes.com
Some folks claim that Apple's mandated inadequacy for browsers and their engines is somehow beneficial to the cause of ensuring a diverse pool of web engines. Nothing could be farther from the truth, but to understand why, we need to understand how browsers are funded. With that understanding, we can see that not only has Apple has starved its own browser team of resources, but has done grevious damage to Mozilla along the way.| Infrequently Noted