The tech press are 100% cooked. I double dog dare you to find any mention in any of the stories covering this that point out it there is an alternative to the App Store:
Techmeme
Apple removes ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE officer sightings, from the App Store; AG Pam Bondi directed the DOJ to ask Apple to remove the app
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Apropos of nothing, but maybe monopolies on software distribution are, like, bad? And a threat to the legitimate exercise of civic rights? Anyway, make web apps and support @npub1kn4y...3asa
A colleague asked me yesterday what I thought of Tailwind, and thought I'd share the topline response: avoid it, not because it's slow (it's fine-ish), but because of the culture it drags behind it. Instead, hire people who know CSS, then let them loose on your UI problem(s). Give them space to turn huge pile of JS into tiny rulesets, and create guardrails to keep slow selectors from hurting (e.g., Shadow DOM). Lean on the browser, not the transpiler.
All I can add [1] to @npub1fdrp...lvhs's latest is that Apple are the primary force keeping us from having powerful, interoperable apps on phones through suppression of the web. It's not an accident, and @npub1kn4y...3asa has the receipts [2]:
Pluralistic: Apple threatens to stop selling iPhones in the EU (26 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
 [1]:
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Apple's Antitrust Playbook - Infrequently Noted
Apple wants to launder the consequences of its own anticompetitive, anti-user choices through a credulous tech press. The goal is to frame regulato...
 [2]:
Open Web Advocacy
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What Apple is trying to pull in the EU is as embarrassing for Cupertino as it is for the EU and the tech press that have credulously repeated Apple's talking points. The only good news is that the EU declined to unilaterally disarm:
Infrequently Noted
Apple's Antitrust Playbook - Infrequently Noted
Apple wants to launder the consequences of its own anticompetitive, anti-user choices through a credulous tech press. The goal is to frame regulato...
You can tell the tech press is cooked because 95% of them can connect the dots. Apple's regulatory playbook is the same that Big Oil and Big Tobacco use: delay == winning. The steps: - try corruption (a.k.a. "lobbying" usually works) - plant fake "think tanks" (ACT, etc.) - set up false comparison points with public - petulance when laws pass - market "compliance" (but do not comply) - appeal to public, claim law hurts kittens ("jobs", "privacy", "american pie")
France 24
EU rejects Apple demand to scrap landmark tech rules
The European Union rejected a call by Apple to scrap its landmark digital competition law on Thursday, dismissing the US giant's claims that t...
"so, um, this law you passed...yes, we know we're not complying, and, well, you see, it's *inconvenient* that we keep getting caught trying to mislead you. Could you scrap it? Cheers." -- Cupertino
France 24
EU rejects Apple demand to scrap landmark tech rules
The European Union rejected a call by Apple to scrap its landmark digital competition law on Thursday, dismissing the US giant's claims that t...
Technology is political. Film at 11.
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Phil Hawksworth (@philhawksworth.dev)
The arbiter of good taste
If you've ever wondered if there's anything to the critique that some browsers "ship whatever they want" or "don't follow standandards", here's the long-form explanation of why those arguments fail on their own terms:
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Web Standards and the Fall of the House of Iamus - Infrequently Noted
Working Groups do not invent the future, nor do they hand down revealed truths by divining entrails like prophets of the House of Iamus. In practic...
Strongly agree with a good 3/4 of this by @npub1fdrp...lvhs:
Pluralistic: The worst possible antitrust outcome (03 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
 The best outcome would have been for Chrome and Android to have been spun out into non-profits, endowed with the cash Google has been paying Apple to avoid any more competition across apps/search/web. It has not helped matters that neither DOJ, nor most civil society orgs (save @npub1kn4y...3asa), could see through private-equity-adjacent logic to understand the public interest in these software projects. Own goals all around.