Apple being Apple again. Just why does anyone actually like that company?
What are some popular examples that would be affected by this?
Here’s a list of Non-Open Source web apps: https://www.neoito.com/blog/best-progressive-web-apps/
Here’s a list of Open Source web apps: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_and_open-source_web_applications
The barrier of entry for these apps are just so low. You don’t have to download anything for them to work and (for now) they’re crossplatform.
If you haven’t yet, you might want to try voyager on your lemmy instance: https://vger.app/
If I’m understanding right, I believe Xbox Cloud Gaming and Geforce Now have used this. They get access to better video APIs by running as a home screen webapp, and aren’t at risk of popping the address bar from touch confusion.
Voyager, a client for Lemmy, also installs as a webapp. Similarly, it doesn’t show the address bar when you scroll up and down.