Of course apple isn't crippling them.

On top of that you have the world's most popular OS with none of the perceived crippling, and we've yet to see a single amazing web app on that OS.

They just released new Wake Lock API, but it only works in browser Safari. It is broken in PWA...

QA cannot be that bad they do not test PWAs for new features.

Of course it isn't. Unless you can come up with a non-random list of things of what constitutes a PWA. Everytime someone screams about Apple not doing something in PWAs, that list is different.

Meanwhile, as I said above, there's an OS that holds about 70% of the world's marketshare that has none of this "crippling" as you put it. And yet, there are literally none of these amazing PWAs there that Apple supposedly cripples on their OS.

Something tells me, the problem doesn't lie with Apple.

Talk is cheap. And yet in all these discussions no one ever says "ho, look, over there in this amazing OS with no restrictions that has 70% of the world's market there are these amazing PWAs, just look at them!"

It's always complaining about some absolutely random API that absolutely must be there on iOS for the PWA to finally happen (even if it exists on that other OS).

There are other opinions also.

I know it is hard to accept it.

But sure, do tell me how it's "just my opinion".

These sites never make their own native app because they cannot afford to maintain those apps.

Websites and PWAs are great and cheap compared to apps.

But it is not hard to google?

https://www.monterail.com/blog/pwa-examples

The question about hard-not-hard to google.

Always in discussions about Safari you will find someone complaining about "Apple crippling PWAs" and coming up with yet another random APIs that they absoluely need to finally make a great PWA.

Always in these discussions I hint that Android is 70% worldwide market share, and has none of the perceived restrictions on PWAs. Surely these amazing PWAs that Apple doesn't allow should exist there. Right? Right?!

And invariably there are crickets.

Even your "example" are literally "we made our site not suck and open faster, this increased conversions, yay! It's all because of PWAs".

Of course it's not. Correlation is not causation. If your page load went from 3s to 0.9s (Washington Post) or is now 4x faster (BMW), it's not really PWA who's responsible for people staying on your website. Oh, you pushed your bloated abomination of a website into offline storage on users' phones and now the site opens faster? Yay (not)!

And then there are egregiously bad takes like "Thanks to PWA Telegram's platform cna be accessed from different devices". Newsflash: Telegram's native apps are available across different platforms