Re: [w3c/manifest] Should appinstalled / beforeinstallprompt fire on native app installation? (#514)

This is certainly a concern, thanks for raising it.

However, really we're not talking about adding any new capabilities to the web to enhance native apps. We're just talking about notifying websites when their corresponding native app is installed, so that they can understand how users are using their different apps and also control the experience to avoid duplicating UI work (e.g., not showing an app install banner if the user has already installed their native app).

We don't like it when sites show native app install banners, so even though this may seem contrary to that mission, helping sites manage their native app integration from their website is the best way we have of reducing that spam. There are real websites asking for these capabilities and if we don't provide them, they are just going to go off and do their own thing anyway.

I wonder if we can make some progress on this as I am landing the `appinstalled` event in Chrome and it would be good to come to a decision about this (we need to add a `platform` attribute to the `appinstalled` event).

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