Apple cripples HTML5 Apps

[Krevnik]

Web apps cut into the profits of Apple.

Imagine when Apple boots Netflix from the app store this summer since Netfix isn't willing to play by Apples forced subscription shenanigans. Netflix could just create a HTML5 web based app to allow subscribers to view their movies in Safari. As long as Apple hampers HTML5 then that won't even be an option.

This doesn't make sense. Netflix could be a web app even with this bug, but HTML5 has no DRM that they need to keep providers happy. So with no support for that, they need the app, silverlight or flash.

The whole point of supporting web apps is to allow developers to bear the cost of hosting an online service without being in the store. The fact that even 3rd party apps using webkit has this problem tells me it is a bug, not a feature.