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by judge2020 1835 days ago
> but without Google pushing web and ad tech forward it would stand little chance against the competing proprietary platforms.

To give some evidence for this, Google pushed hard for PWAs - it serves their interests since they can focus on one platform for their desktop platforms, but also means that on Desktop (via Chrome) and Android each web app can just install themselves without having to distribute a native package or go through an app store.