Uhm yes? You don't have to develop them specifically for iOS, maintain a separate codebase, pay their extortion fees, or need to buy their Computers to develop

Crippling PWAs would benefit their baseline through their App Store or Core Technology Fee though

PWAs aren’t exactly great on iOS to begin with, and if that was their aim, it would make more sense to disable it worldwide rather than just the EU. They may well not bring it back for all we know, but if they are going to, it’s not going to be without figuring out exactly what it is they want PWAs to be able to do and what resources they’ll be allowed access to which probably means additional APIs and entitlements for third-party browsers.

It works quite well for some use cases

Sure, but from the perspective of web developers advocating for PWAs it was already crippled. Now it’s just disabled in the EU.

They are granting their App Store or Core Technology Bullshit an huge advantage

They worked just fine until now. Also PWA's are sandboxed in the Browser, and Apple still reviews every App, even the 3rd Party ones

Browser Choice, forcing Microsoft to Unbundle Edge again from Windows and making their crap uninstallable...

At this point they are begging to be punished. No way the EU can save their face without a reaction after all these Middle fingers from Apple

Yeah until they die because the not changeable SSDs has reached their cycles. I see many old ThinkPads still humming in the university library, but not many old macs.

Extraordinarily few people reach the cycle limit of the SSD on their Mac. That's not something to worry about for probably 99.999% of people, so it's just a weird thing to bring up.

And how do you know you're not seeing many old MacBooks? The MBA was launched over a decade and a half ago and it still looks almost identical to a casual observer.

That's why there are so many reports about M1 Notebooks dying after 3/4 years out there.

There are huge noticeable differences between a 10 year MBA and a recent one

You may be thinking of the bugs that were present in the very first generation of M1s, that caused them to erroneously display a wear level much higher than they were actually experiencing.

And as long as you have the Silver color option, a MacBook Air from 2023 looks very much like a MacBook Air from 2014 if you're not stopping and looking closely at it.

If you have one of the colored ones, those date back to 2018 with, again, a very similar design to today's.

Except there aren't reports of that. Just tried googling and couldn't find anything about SSD failure actually happening. What I did find was some fearmongering back in 2021 about whether it might become a thing, but it seems like it was entirely hypothetical and never actually happened.

Also the M1 has only been around for a little over 3 years. They can't be dying after 4 years because they're not that old.

Where are you getting all this misinformation from? And why are you motivated to be repeating it?

Then try again. Rossmann Made a video about it, here is another article talking about it https://www.sir-apfelot.de/en/ssd-failures-in-macbook-models...

That's bullshit. You still get the phone thrown after you with a Phone Contract, and often it's the same price as buying the phone in a store. Even with a 2 year contract

It isn't a status symbol in western Europe. Really Every moron can get one with their 30-50€/Mo contracts, and you see many poor people running around with it

The same goes for in the US, but it certainly is portrayed different there.

It's available on many platforms. Otherwise no one would use it, since iPhones are quite the minority in Europe