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If Apple like the idea fine then they don’t fund/pay attention to it accordingly. Safari is full of weird PWA bugs and long standing ones, too. As for the noti

If Apple like the idea fine then they don’t fund/pay attention to it accordingly. Safari is full of weird PWA bugs and long standing ones, too. As for the notifications, it’s easily solved. Softest touch: don’t let a notification prompt show without there being a user interaction first. Hardest touch: only allow it for webapps that are installed to the home screen. I have a much less charitable view: Apple doesn’t like webapps because they’re a threat to the App Store ecosystem. Not so much from a monetary perspective but an exclusivity one: if you can run all the exact same apps on all mobile platforms they lose an edge. (though I’m sure they don’t mind the money either!)

GeekyBear 6y ago
> Apple doesn’t like webapps because they’re a threat to the App Store ecosystem Steve Jobs in 2010: >"We have two platforms we support. One is completely open and uncontrolled and that is HTML 5. We support HTML 5. We have the best support for HTML 5 of anyone in the world. We then support a curated platform, which is the App Store." https://web.archive.org/web/20100605065858/http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-20006519-501465.html https://web.archive.org/web/20100605065858/http://www.cbsnew... They've been pointing out that you can do anything you like through the web since the App Store was new.
- afavour 6y ago
  Just because Steve Jobs said it doesn’t make it true. Apple have lagged behind webapp standards for years. Even with the release of iOS 14.5 there are no notes about changes in the browser, despite there being a bunch. Claiming Apple fully support the web because of something a former CEO said in a marketing presentation over a decade ago just doesn’t work.