[shawnphoffman]

I think you meant "this is Apple letting you know who owns their notification infrastructure".

[olgeni]

...which, by the way, is the only one you are allowed to use...

[mannkind]

... thankfully ...

As a user: I want the platform to take care of notifications. I care not to install dozens of different notification systems because some app decides to use Yet Another Notification System.

As a developer: I want the platform to take care of notifications. I don't want to worry about some third-party server works as expected nor do I want to have to care about the user having the right software install either.