In case you're wondering what's in it for google with PWAs/App manifests/"Installable apps"[0], it's answered in another recent HN post[1] and comment[2]. I wr

In case you're wondering what's in it for google with PWAs/App manifests/"Installable apps"[0], it's answered in another recent HN post[1] and comment[2]. I wrote and deleted a pretty vitriolic comment about not trusting google as stewards of anything, people who care about the user (outside of selling data/access to the user millions of times a second), but I couldn't figure out why they would push app manifests (the only interesting part of the actual comment). [0]: https://web.dev/installable https://web.dev/installable [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18434639 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18434639 [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18435412 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18435412