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

> You either want web apps to be installable or you don't.

This seems like a classic case of [false dilemma](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma).

> If you want it, then commit to it. If you want them installable, you want it to be as frictionless as possible. Otherwise, it's easier to get a user to just download a .dmg or .exe file. **_Do we really want that?_**

That doesn't logically follow. I find it much easier to visit a website in my browser than having to go to App Store or Play store & download hundreds of megabytes of binary. The biggest strength of the Web, compared to native platform, is the *reach* in my view because of how easy it is to go to any website.

On the other hand, I would find it annoying if each one of those websites kept asking me to allow notifications or save it to home screen & will probably use web browser less if I had to constantly deal with that.

> This is very different from Safari's stance of never encouraging web users to add websites to their home screens.

I don't think either Apple's WebKit team or Safari team ever said that; at least I'm not aware of any stance or policy to discourage users to save websites on home screen. Had that been the case, we probably would have gotten rid of the feature entirely.

On a related note, I find it reprehensive that some people feel comfortable making baseless accusations of companies or people. I get that you might be frustrated with the way current UI works in Safari on iOS but that's not a reason to make up & spread conspiracy theories about others. *Let's not do that*.

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