From iOS 1 to 18 there have been 1.045 releases per year

Simple linear equation (2025 + x = 2018 + x * 1.045): they will meet in 2180! We could just wait ;-)

Total major releases: 18 (iOS 1.0 through iOS 18.0) Time span: From June 29, 2007 (iOS 1.0) to September 16, 2024 (iOS 18.0) Duration: 17.22 years Rate: 18 releases ÷ 17.22 years = 1.045 releases per year

instead of writing a proper argument is it a great idea to write a list of silly questions? probably ...

the story was about MECHANICAL not DIGITAL

If you have spend as much time to write your post as you could have spent to look up what a PWA is you would know that PWAs are not at all the same as bookmarks.

It will open a WebKit based app including local storage. Not Safari. Unlike Safari this app will support local storage that does NOT get wiped after 7 days. As developer I am totally fine with that.

Some believe that PWAs are not that important. However, this is really a chicken and egg problem. PWAs could actually be great if companies like Apple would have supported them better. It is clear that Apple has no financial interest to do so. Excluding PWAs from working in the EU on Apple hardware would have likely killed PWAs. After all, if you cannot deploy your web app cross platform what would be the point? This would have been hellish for developers to keep separate versions of PWA and mobile apps. I am glad Apple came to their senses. Now I am just wondering for how long?

They include permanent local storage. Local store in Safari gets wiped after 7 days rendering most web apps useless.

I do know when you worked with web apps but must have been years ago

Add to Home Screen was the only way to create PWA on iOS

This could be the end of PWAs and will be a total disaster for web app developers. Safari has ridiculous 7 day limit of local storage making the use of Safari as platform for web apps impossible. The "Add to Homescreen" option solved this: full screen and local storage with no time out. What exactly is the deal with the EU "version"? In the EU Beta is there still an "Add to Homescreen" option? Does it produce some shortcut with its own local storage? Does anybody know any contact info of the EU team creating these new laws? They need to be aware what is going on with PWAs.

Apple's Knowledge Navigator: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F... Quite amazing how far along the vision (but not the implementation) was back then. The introduction mentions "searching the web" but keep in mind the actual Apple clip is from 1987 which is before the web actually existed. Foldable displays, touch interface, AI agents, voice interfaces, internet for end-users, ... It is pretty amazing and can still provide some insight on how to deal with the recent AI revolution.

You lost me with the "a compiler is an AI" analogy. Compilers are abstract machines providing new constructs which can be (deterministically and without the need to learn/train anything) reduced to instructions of another machine at a lower level of abstraction closer to actual hardware.

Not sure what is supposed to be backward in abandoning an inherently dangerous technology with unresolved sustainability issues. Dumping radioactive materials, so far, has created a large number of documented disasters (e.g., collapsing salt mines). And these are just the relatively short term consequences ignoring long term disasters of containers eroding and leaking.

Focusing on alternative energy solutions with long term sustainability is the very definition of forward thinking.

Here is a different potentially quite revealing experiment. Print a picture of SOME moon (not ours, e.g., Saturn's Mimas) and see what you get. I would say if this gets substituted by our moon then this approach has stepped over a line that it should not have. It is super unlikely that Samsung trained their AI with any other moon but other moons may still be sufficiently "moonish" to trip up the AI.

As a developer and user I actually kind of like the one browser only experience of iOS. Testing on different platforms is already taxing. Spreading this out onto multiple browsers on iOS would be a night mare.

Right, a pen and sophisticated AI system are roughly the same.

I found many cases where ChatCPT was indeed quite useful helping me to program. In other words, I know that there is more value and that value is only doing up over time.