News Summary

• That change, along with the increased attention on progressive web apps (PWAs) — the cross-platform, web-based apps that Android, Windows, and even Apple are starting to support more aggressively — could make your headset’s browser wildly more powerful practically overnight..
• You can create homescreen bookmarks, which are just shortcuts to web apps, but those web apps don’t have the same access to offline modes, cross-app collaboration, or some of your phone’s other built-in features..
• Embracing the web will mean threatening the very things that have made Apple so powerful and so rich in the mobile era, but at least at first, the open web is Apple’s best chance to make its headset a winner..
• Because at least so far, it seems developers are not exactly jumping to build new apps for Apple’s new platform.Historically, Apple is unmatched in its ability to get app makers to keep up with its newest stuff..
• With a good browser and powerful PWAs, many users might mostly not notice the difference between opening the Spotify app and going to Spotify.com..
• Netflix got a sweetheart deal from Apple years ago to share only 15 percent of revenue but has recently been refusing to participate in the Apple TV app’s discovery feature and has long since stopped allowing you to subscribe to Netflix from your iOS device..