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by cglong 1263 days ago
All of those are possible with PWAs except #5, and I'd argue that having completely different SDKs for each platform is much worse :(
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A pwa can only track you, as long as it is running and depending on the browser, has focus.

A native app can track you all the time.

Also, PWAs on apple have only "persistent" storage for 7 days.

https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/710157

Notifications are not. Yea the browser technically provides them but no one allows this (nor should they)
Lyft has a PWA, which IMO is a really good use case for browser-based notifications.
Unique identification is no longer possible thanks to the 7 day cap on script writeable storage.

Notifications are coming in 2023.

But the big one — access to the address book picker - is still behind an Experimental flag !!