God, this article is so much cringier than I thought it would be. It’s basically all “that happened” level content, like, “I told the gay lady to respect me and then everybody cheered.”
Guess what, my small business will still be manufacturing things in China. But we will be shipping out of the EU instead of the US. Americans lost at least my few jobs because of the tariffs.
Yeah, you get some offline capabilities (like recording video to local storage) when you have a PWA. Obviously app or not, nobody is going to be uploading video without an internet connection.
This behavior alone should cause all software engineers to cringe. LLMs have the terrible habit of just wrapping enormous blocks of code in broad try:catch structures, making it absolutely impossible to debug anything.
I guarantee you that all this can be done in Mobile Safari. I have done it before.
You have to go through the “Share > Add to Home Screen” workflow instead of having the site simply install it for you, so it’s a bit more effort (and confusion) on the user’s part.
Surely all of those things can be done in a browser. You can grant location and camera permissions to a website easy enough. And encrypted transfer can be done any number of ways. Offline recording is possible with localstorage. All of this seems very achievable and effectively uncensorable by Apple.
The only thing it can’t get is App Store search rank.
I think you need a circle for summoning, not whatever shape that is.
Then again Bob Ross is so kind he’d probably show up anyway just to tell you that it was a happy little accident.