Are you aware that iOS supports PWAs, and recently implemented notifications for them?
Besides - there are plenty of other things Apple can do to ensure PWA's don't take off. For example, there is no ability for a web-app to have a "click here to install to desktop" button - the website must try to guide the user into clicking the share button and then creating a desktop icon - which most users don't associate with 'installing' something.
Also, the 50Mb limit on PWA's prevents a lot of usecases - like photo/video editors, and even most messaging apps.
Firefox refuses to implement pwa. Chrome has pwas but they're not isolated.
Apple is the only one with sane pwa but somehow they're the worst and are totally sabotaging PWAs because something something walled garden?
The entirety of TempleOS (including dozens of programs and multimedia games) is 2MB.
Or consider a PWA music player - 50MB of music is all you can play offline.
Or a photo editor - 50MB is the limit for all your saved files unless you want to save them to a cloud server.
> Or a photo editor - 50MB is the limit for all your saved files unless you want to save them to a cloud server.
Why should either of these be saving files in an app-specific private datastore? Music, photos, videos, etc. should be in the standard system locations. The app's data storage should be solely used for settings, cache, and other internal data only useful to the app.
I'm not familiar with PWAs but if they can't access system storage then I don't think they're a useful choice for a music player or photo editor.
DRMed content providers might not want to store their files on the normal filesystem because then they might have to answer uncomfortable questions like "why can't I copy this file to X and play it there?" but there's no technical reason they can't do just like every DRMed content provider on normal PC platforms has always done and store encrypted files on the normal filesystem.
I would like it if they were more discoverable, but not necessarily with the obnoxious pop ups. It would be awesome if they let you list a PWA in the App Store for a fee or the 30% cut.