Battery life is the main reason for this it seems. It's not about "having the option" it's "if you give devs the option they will use it leading to an overall worse experience." Web push notifications can't possibly leverage the single low-power TCP connection that iOS (and Android with gplay) devices keep open.
Push notifications in the way that phones do it are necessarily platform and service specific.
You don't have to allow Apple to MITM your push notifications BTW. Just send a generic ping to your app, and when it wakes up pull the actual content from your server and display the notification.
Push notifications in the way that phones do it are necessarily platform and service specific.
You don't have to allow Apple to MITM your push notifications BTW. Just send a generic ping to your app, and when it wakes up pull the actual content from your server and display the notification.