That's a good point. It could risk the whole app. Luckily, there will probably be other Apple developers willing to take on the risk for the rest of us.
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Now that iOS has push notification support for PWAs, I think that’s the future. Relying on Apple’s goodwill is not going to work out for freedom tech.
Agreed. Hopefully, PWA is the solution that makes the app store obsolete.
Wishful thinking. If you truly care about decentralization, you should not be using iOS. Apple's phone OS is the biggest centralizing force in tech right now.
Other Apple products are fine. You can use a MacBook and care about decentralization (you can still side-load apps into MacOS). The iOS is just a very hard no right now.