There is a middle ground I would be okay with. A website is only allowed to ask you if want notifications if you added it to your home screen. If you delete the web page from your home screen, it automatically disabled the notification. It falls within the same paradigm that people are accustomed to.

AFAIK this is not the way Safari works and it's not the main motivation for Apple

They just don't want web apps to rival with the native ones skipping the whole store experience and fee

But that's just speculation on my side, I have no data to back it up

This makes no sense. As I said in another reply. If PWAs are so great, why aren’t companies bypassing creating Android apps and just telling Android users to use web apps?

On top of that, how many apps are really just surfacing server hosted services where there are no in app purchases?

According to the data I found, PWAs make 50% of the Android market.

Among the most popular there are

- Uber

- Pinterest

- Telegram

- Trivago

- Tinder

- Google maps Go

- AliExpress

Yet most of those companies decided to make native apps. If PWA’s were good enough, why bother writing native apps for Android?

Do you have a citation?

> PWA’s were good enough, why bother writing native apps for Android?

same reason people write native apps on iOS

It's easier to track users, especially those users rich enough to buy high end phones and that will probably spend more money and the ROI is higher.

They also make PWAS to gain user base on low end phones and emerging markets.

And because making them is quite cheap.

So most companies aren’t using PWAs to save money on Android and probably wouldn’t on iOS either....

Do you propose that Apple makes Safari more able to invade privacy?

If the only purpose of PWAs for Android is to make it easier to run on low end cheap phones - that’s really not a good argument is it with iOS is it? Even the 6s from 2015 is more performant than many mid range new Android phones.