Re: [w3c/manifest] beforeinstallprompt : Prompting user makes it to hard to discern whether the user truly wanted to "install" a web app (#835)

> Those manners don't ask or promot users to install any app; it simply indicates that there is an app available if they wanted to use, and links to the relevant content in App Store where the user then has an option of installing it. There is no mechanism to directly install an app straight out of an app banners.

Under this definition, `beforeinstallprompt` also does not provide a mechanism to directly install an app, and seem analogous to what you have described Apple's [native app banners as doing](https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/PromotingAppswithAppBanners/PromotingAppswithAppBanners.html ): showing the user native UI containing the app metadata, and give them an install button should they wish to install.

Do you mind clarifying the distinction you see here? I'm having a hard time drawing a distinction. :)

> In the case of a web app, users are already using the app so there is no reason to remind them of its existence (since they're already using it), and the way people promote that there are other apps available on the web is to have hyperlinks to them.

Semantically, I suspect users think of hyperlinks as not really representing links to apps, but links to web pages, which is why developers have made it clear that the ability to promote their web apps in this way is important.

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