Let's assume the new limit was 1GB. Imagine 10,000 spammers sending 100s of 1GB video infomercials to 1,000,000,000 email addresses that no one wants to receive. Servers would fail. Image people that have to pay for bandwidth receiving all that unwanted data.

Limits are there to protect the internet from immoral (and unthinking) people. There are far better, more secure, and more efficient ways to send large amounts of data. If you are hitting limits, it's a good sign you need to think about what you are doing.

Frankly I'd like the email limit to be much smaller to stop people sending useless facebook, twitter, company logos and images and bloated html, pdf, and malware attachments. And stop people sending a 20 megapixel picture of their screen to show me an error message that contain one line of text.

Our app runs fine in Firefox and privacy focused versions of Chrome (such as Brave). Once the app is started, it is stored on the device. No cloud or network connection is required, just like a native app. You seem to have a very limited understanding of how a PWA works. Less choice? Vender lock-in? Where are you getting that nonsense?

As a developer, creating a PWA is way more enjoyable and easier than creating native versions of the app, so yes I am basking in the glory of freedom from Google and Apple. Our app runs on Window and Linux too, so you don't even have to touch any Google or Apple data collecting products. I find your attitude puzzling. At least we are trying to make a difference for a better future. Are your working for Google or Apple?

It is insulting the way Google and Apple treat app developers. If we didn't create all theses apps for them, Android and iOS would just be another Blackberry. Unfortunately Google and Apple realize they have full control over the mobile market and can do anything they want because developers no longer have a choice but to support their platforms.

Fortunately there is now a new option:PWAs. We've redeveloped our app as a PWA. It has almost all of the same functionality as a native app, but without all the restrictions and nonsense that Google and Apple impose. Plus we can use our existing payment system. Plus it drives traffic to our website and not to their stores. Plus we don't have to create two different versions for two very different platforms. Development and testing are vastly easier. This is what it should be like!

Not much interest in our goal to go open source so far, so we'd consider a buyout. 30 years worth of code available!

Progressive Web Apps run directly in a web browser and do not even need to be installed. The problem is that Safari is so far behind or so limited in many aspects, these apps cannot run as expected or cannot have the functionality users would expect. Apple will not allow other web browser engines to be used on iOS, so all customers are forced to use an inferior one. Even during Microsoft's monopoly, customers could freely install different web browsers.

As someone that has years of experience developing Windows, Android, iOS, and Progressive Web Apps, I can say without doubt that iOS development is the worst experience I have had as a developer. Apple is one of the most developer hostile, needlessly complicated environments I have had to work with. Apple seems to believe that it is a privilege to have permission to create apps for their platform. In reality without all of the apps that developers have created for iOS, it would just be another Blackberry (which was supposedly more secure than iOS).

Apple promotes the walled garden as a shield that protects customers from malware and spying. The truth is that it provides limited protection from malware. To bypass this shield, hackers simply need to pay the entrance fee (Apple Development Program fee) and then they are free to create whatever malware/spyware they want. They just need to get it past the reviewers, which happens on a regular basis. The walled garden is engineered to strictly control money and profits on the platform. Any good developer stepping outside of this money control is severely punished. It's disturbing how badly and disrespectful Apple treats developers.

The walled garden also causes major complications and costs for app development for small, honest developers.

Developing Progressive Web Apps is a much more enjoyable and liberating experience. There are still many limitation in what can be done within a web browser, but avoiding the nightmare of native iOS (and Android) app development is a enormous positive. Allowing iOS users to choose a better web browser would really help drive this technology forward, but I seriously doubt Apple will ever change their stance because it would require them to give up control of the profits.