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You might’ve heard some news about Apple and the EU and are wondering what “malicious compliance” means so let me try and explain it in simple terms:
Imagine Tim Cook unzipping his fly and taking a good long piss on @EU_Commission then smirking as he asks “what you gonna do about it, chump?”
(We wait to see how the European Commission respond after they take a warm shower and dry off.)
In the meanwhile, make some noise to try and save web apps:
https://open-web-advocacy.org/apple-attempts-killing-webapps/
@aral no you don’t understand, this is perfectly reasonable and also the politicians’ fault for trying not to be pissed on, you see the guy who once made an open source thing said so 
@xerz Oh, of course he’s defending them… Quelle surprise!
@aral I'm gonna need some explaining for dummies here. I have no idea what a web app even is, let alone what Apple is doing, can somebody give me the absolute layperson explanation?
@amberage Web apps are just websites that can be installed, like an app, with their own app icons and windows. The web already has an insane amount of features and flexibility, so it only makes sense that you could be able to treat the browser as another way to run apps with.
Apple has supported this since the very beginning of the iPhone. Yes, even before the App Store. However, they decided to remove the feature entirely from iOS in the EU… because they would have to let third party browsers handle web apps too.
@xerz ah, I see. The more you know :o
@aral @EU_Commission They are ushering in a new era for tech, don't you see? You clearly lack the sophisticated reasoning skills that can only come from being able to afford expensive and entirely unnecessary hardware.
@tchauhan @EU_Commission Indeed, I don’t even have an iSnorkle.