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Apple backs off killing web apps, but the fight continues - Open Web Advocacy

In a huge relief to developers and supporters of the open web, and under immense backlash, Apple has cancelled its plan to sabotage Web Apps!. This ends weeks of fear and uncertainty for developers and users.

After 2 weeks, in the face of steadily increasing developer and media backlash, Apple was forced to rush out this statement where they confirmed they were deliberately breaking Web Apps and that it had been planned. Signatures include two European MEPs (Karen Melchior & Patrick Breyer); a number of significant EU companies such as social media platform Mastodon; and individuals (advocating in their personal capacity) who work for SwissLife, Tchibo, W3C, Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, Vivaldi, BBC, Financial Times, ​​Red Hat, Oracle, Amazon, Wikimedia, Vercel, Netlify, Shopify, Spotify, AirBNB, Berlin University of the Arts, Open State Foundation - Netherlands, Cloudflare, Meta, Chase, Squarespace, Reddit, Atlassian, Maersk, Paypal, Salesforce, block, Adobe, ebay, Zynga, booking.com and thoughtworks; and many other developers and organisations from over 100 countries. Behind the scenes, a small team of dedicated volunteers have worked almost non-stop for the past month to build and launch our surveys, open letters, social media campaigns, translate content, provide technical advice and write multiple lengthy regulatory submissions.

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