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Darius Kazemi

Ooh, this is kind of big. Apple announced in June that in 2023 they will enable push notifications for web apps on iOS. What this means is I can finally tell my users on Friend Camp that it makes sense to just pin the site to their home page and use the mobile website. (Android already supports push notifications and it really is indistinguishable from using an app store app, except that all our nice custom features are supported in ways that apps can't do.)

9to5mac.com/2022/06/06/ios-16-

10 Nov 2022 at 18:19 | Open on friend.camp
6 comments
emenel

@darius feels like a long time coming ... a return to the original iPhone promise of first-class websites, before the app store kind of ruined everything :)

10 Nov 2022 at 18:26 | Open on post.lurk.org
josephby

@darius PSA: Your startup now needs a mobile app even less than it did before.

10 Nov 2022 at 18:30 | Open on mastodon.social
Clive Thompson

@darius oh my goodness this really is a big deal! So cool

10 Nov 2022 at 18:44 | Open on saturation.social
Thundertide

@darius this is great, iOS 16 has been a big deal for customization, this just adds onto that.

10 Nov 2022 at 18:49 | Open on frontrange.co
Ben Grosser

@darius is this already the case on android? (i use iOS so don’t know)

11 Nov 2022 at 6:21 | Open on mastodon.social
Darius Kazemi

@bengrosser yeah on Android the pinned website is every bit as good as a first class app. I've never used anything else because I've never needed to

11 Nov 2022 at 6:38 | Open on friend.camp
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