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> f multiple stores were possible/viable for iOS

Or if PWA's were reasonably supported

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What APIs is Safari/iOS lacking for ICEBlock to function as a website?

Many, but one that comes to mind right now - you cant have an "app" icon on the home page. Which reduces discoverability a lot.

Yes you can. You’ve been able to do that since before the App Store.

This is an old chestnut that's no longer true. Safari's PWA support is better than Firefox's today, on both mobile and desktop. Two examples off the top of my head: Safari has better Web Push support, and supports the W3C's Badging API.

I could not find the indexdb bug on safari that stopped me from using it at work, but I was able to find something from 2021: https://gist.github.com/pesterhazy/4de96193af89a6dd5ce682ce2...

My impression for the last ~10+ years is that you could not depend on index db in safari, not for heavy use cases, and doubly so for ios and there was not a viable alternative whenever I checked.

I would be happy to know that things are looking better for PWAs on ios though if things are now viable.

Thanks for the additional background, I'll dig into that! FYI, based in part on our exchange, I created pwascore.com to scratch the itch of wanting a reasonably-objective "score" for browser PWA support.

Why would we want to limit ourselves to PWAs? Being able to run arbitrary executable file has been the core feature of general-purpose computers since the beginning.

I'd consider smart phones as being general-purposes, same as laptops/desktops/servers.

In this case, so that you don't get kicked out of the App Store with no recourse.

The way they're lock down make them really not general-purpose. Smart phones really were envisioned as thin-clients to cloud servers. When you start getting too far away from that, everything starts fighting you.

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