Open Web AdvocacyApr 9

🔥 "Capable browsers, and the PWAs they support, hold the power to grow an ecosystem of applications that no gatekeeper can own or tax, based on standardised APIs that resist enclosure. But few outlets are connecting these dots for readers."

📖 Read: https://infrequently.org/2026/04/the-web-is-an-antitrust-wedge/

The Web Is An Antitrust Wedge

Armed with new powers to rein in the worst excesses of mobile's duopolists, regulators around the world are struggling to find their footing. The UK's CMA is only the latest to pose capitulation as success. Far from unlocking growth and dynamism, regulatory timidity is reducing enforcers' future room for manoeuvre and hampering home-grown competitors to Big Tech. Unleashing the web would fix a great deal of what's broken, but regulators are falling down on the job. It's time we spoke plainly about it.

Alex Russell
Show threadMichael Veale
@owa indeed, although PWAs are by far and away the most popular format for apps in China, which effectively constrains them to working within a duopoly of Weixin and Alipay. So need to take lessons from there.
Apr 9 at 12:38pmWeb