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https://blog.pwabuilder.com/posts/publish-your-pwa-to-the-io...

> While WebKit is making progress on PWA support, at the time of this writing, PWAs remain a second-class citizen on iOS. The iOS App Store’s support for PWAs is non-existent, requiring a web view-based solution like PWABuilder’s.

> Additionally, because iOS doesn’t allow 3rd party browser engines, your PWA is limited to WebKit’s PWA capabilities, which are currently lagging behind other browser engines.

Google isn't abandoning PWAs, and in fact Chromium continues expanding support to make them as native as possible:

https://web.dev/window-controls-overlay/

Might I also add that the web app manifest is also an open standard, that Safari is lacking on:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Manifest

https://w3c.github.io/manifest/

>>encryp+(OP)
I can take a mobile web site, wrap it in a browser component and publish it to the App Store. Now I will lose one of the advantages of PWA e.g. remote updates but everything else I can do e.g. push notifications, access device APIs.

This has been available for close to a decade.

Guess what. Users hate it. They hate mobile web apps and their slow, clunky, feature-poor, non-native interfaces and for that reason they will also hate PWAs.

>>threes+v1
Does this argument matter to the question of Apple allowing Chromium?

>>threes+v1
I think you're ignoring the fact that App Store didn't allow PWAs until fairly recently, among a bunch of other things. Mobile web apps aren't slow or clunky or feature-poor and you can design your interface however you want now... except on Apple products. It sounds like your issue is the poor support from Apple, which is exactly what I was getting at. I'd encourage you to read through the blog post I linked here:

https://blog.pwabuilder.com/posts/publish-your-pwa-to-the-io...

> PWAs remain a second-class citizen on iOS

> PWABuilder doesn’t guarantee that your app will be accepted into Apple’s App Store.

> In 2019, Apple released new guidelines for HTML5 apps in the App Store

2019 isn't close to a decade.