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When the hell is Apple going to finally allow push notifications for the web?

by rabuse 5y ago

ta9999 5y ago
Never, they make way to much money and have an incredible amount of power over developers by keeping it disabled. People just leave you out of group chats if you don't have an iPhone now because building a decent chat application for iOS is too fucking hard.
adrr 5y ago
Never. They make too much money off the App Store.
kiwijamo 5y ago
Consider that users don't want notifications. I turn this off on other devices and I'm sure many others also do so.
- turblety 5y ago
  You don't get notifications when you get a new Email or Social Message? You don't have Facebook/WhatsApp/Email? If not, then I applaud you. If you do, but keep notifications off, that's kinda respectable too. But I'm guessing you do get a notification when you get a new text message, chat message or email. Why should only native apps, that go through a dictatorship approval process from Apple, be allowed to send you notifications. Of course, you should always be able to say "No" to a site or app sending you notifications. This is the case on Android, as could be the case on Apple. Progress Web Apps are opening up the potential for developers to spend less time on the *worst* development platforms (xcode and android studio), and more time on their product. That being said, it would be cool if an app could not "force" notifications to be allowed. Like, you could choose "Allow", "Deny" or "Hide" which would trick the app into thinking you had allowed notifications, but then just not show them. It would stop bad advert behaviour. Although, on Android, I have never seen this be abused (yet).
- rabuse 5y ago
  That's why there's two buttons labeled "Allow" and "Don't Allow".
tomjen3 5y ago
Hopefully never. I website should not be able to do anything to my browser when i don't have it opened.
- rabuse 5y ago
  Do you have apps installed with notifications?
  - tomjen3 5y ago
    Sure and sadly they have been misused there.
halostatue 5y ago
Hopefully never. I hard disable the permission to ask me for push notification permissions on every browser I can, because under no circumstances do I want a website to send me a push notification. Ever.

When the hell is Apple going to finally allow push notifications for the web?

by rabuse 5y ago

When the hell is Apple going to finally allow push notifications for the web?

Never, they make way to much money and have an incredible amount of power over developers by keeping it disabled. People just leave you out of group chats if you don't have an iPhone now because building a decent chat application for iOS is too fucking hard.

adrr 5y ago

Never. They make too much money off the App Store.

kiwijamo 5y ago

Consider that users don't want notifications. I turn this off on other devices and I'm sure many others also do so.

turblety 5y ago
You don't get notifications when you get a new Email or Social Message? You don't have Facebook/WhatsApp/Email? If not, then I applaud you. If you do, but keep notifications off, that's kinda respectable too. But I'm guessing you do get a notification when you get a new text message, chat message or email. Why should only native apps, that go through a dictatorship approval process from Apple, be allowed to send you notifications. Of course, you should always be able to say "No" to a site or app sending you notifications. This is the case on Android, as could be the case on Apple. Progress Web Apps are opening up the potential for developers to spend less time on the *worst* development platforms (xcode and android studio), and more time on their product. That being said, it would be cool if an app could not "force" notifications to be allowed. Like, you could choose "Allow", "Deny" or "Hide" which would trick the app into thinking you had allowed notifications, but then just not show them. It would stop bad advert behaviour. Although, on Android, I have never seen this be abused (yet).
rabuse 5y ago
That's why there's two buttons labeled "Allow" and "Don't Allow".

tomjen3 5y ago

Hopefully never. I website should not be able to do anything to my browser when i don't have it opened.

rabuse 5y ago
Do you have apps installed with notifications?
- tomjen3 5y ago
  Sure and sadly they have been misused there.

halostatue 5y ago

Hopefully never. I hard disable the permission to ask me for push notification permissions on every browser I can, because under no circumstances do I want a website to send me a push notification. Ever.