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That "notable exception" is fatal to PWAs for most businesses who might otherwise develop one. Apple needs to implement that.

As an iPhone owner, the inability for PWAs to have notifications is probably my single biggest gripe at the moment.

I wrote more about this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24643185

and here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24731713

My key issue is working offline, if I could make that work in a convincing way with good usability that'd be ideal. You can still only store 5mb in local storage, so you can't sync a load of data to the device and allow the user to use it in the field. Also, there is now a 7-day age limit for data in local storage - I understand why this was done (for user privacy) but it just makes things more hostile for developers attempting to use it in a legitimate way.

I for one would flat out refuse to use any service that requires PWAs