[threeseed]

> You have never experienced this

Actually we have.

In the early days of iOS, Apple never regulated push notifications. And so I remember many apps using them as a reminder pushing notifications daily and sometimes even multiple times a day. There were also companies selling "notification space" within their apps to third parties for use as an advertising channel.

It was pretty awful and it degraded the overall experience of using the iPhone since notifications appear whilst your using other apps.

Apple was right to regulate them. And I hope Apple continues to look after consumers and not allow PWA to use them.

[wayneftw]

Actually, you misunderstood the response.

They said "In short, my UX on iOS is better without them (web notifications) even being possible".

How could they know when Apple never implemented it?

The fact that apps had unregulated push notifications and now they don't pretty much settles the debate in my favor. Apple can regulate push notifications for PWAs in all sorts of ways outside of barring them altogether, just like they did for native apps.

[threeseed]

The point is that Apple only managed to reign in push notifications because they were able to warn/ban apps.

They can't do this with PWA.

[wayneftw]

They absolutely can.

You’re acting like there’s zero way for them to throttle what’s going on in Safari.

How do you think Google warns you when you’re going to some malware website? They keep a list somewhere. Apple could do that very easily.

Computers are very good at keeping lists.