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The walled gardens go up around paid app stores because of the way court decisions landed in the US[1]. PWAs are an open standard, they aren't really part of the analysis.

But yes, if you want them to stick around maybe consider using platforms that best support them.

[1] Apple disallowed open access and so couldn't be a "monopoly" per the court and could charge whatever license fee they wanted; Google let people sideload their own apps and so was forced to allow entire third party app stores. Yes, this is just as insane as it sounds.



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