I'm a big supporter of PWAs, but I don't think push notifications add all that much value for most regular apps much less PWAs. However, I do appreciate that the apps need to request permission to send notifications as opposed to regular apps which can send them unless explicitly denied permission.
> regular apps which can send them unless explicitly denied permission
That's not true at all. On iOS at least.
Anecdotally, every client that rejected a PWA approach has been due to insisting on push notifications. These apps are typically internal employee apps and the push notifications are important alerts that they do not want lost in the shuffle of emails.
Why would you want to push ‘important alerts’ using an off by default, unreliable api?
I can say we (roomlio.com) really miss not having push notifications on iOS for our chat PWA. Just presenting that as one use case where I believe push notifications would add value by notifying users of new chat messages.
Disagree.
For many enterprises/clients this is the key (and only missing feature).
I've seen apps that resort to sending text messages for notifications. I'd imagine the billing is more pricy, but some PWAs have to curtail App Store restrictions.