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I hope that Safari's PWA support remains broken forever by your defintion, then.


As I wrote elsewhere last week, there’s no reason I shouldn’t be able to be notified by the apps I do want to be notified by just because there are 10,000 websites I don’t want notifications from.


What website could you possibly want a notification from? Good lord, most native apps shouldn’t be allowed to post notifications.


As I said, just because most people don't want most apps to notify them doesn't mean that nobody wants any notifications from any app.

Here's a list I wrote elsewhere in this thread:

* todos * reminders * calendars * chat * phone

And the list goes on.

There are many others where the app might be possible, but for many people in many cases those apps are useless without notifications. Stocks, forum apps, etc.

Do I want stock notifications? No, I don't. But if I did decide to start day trading, I couldn't use a PWA unless it could notify me. I'm a member of a dozen forums, most of which I want no notifications from. But one of them I administer, and I need notifications. Another one, I need notifications from topics I'm following.

99% of apps on my phone aren't allowed to notify me, but I wouldn't call my phone a smart phone if it couldn't notify me when I want it. The same goes for apps, whether native or PWA.




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