1. Today we have 4 browser implementors. Only one of them doesn't also own an operating system (FF). We lost opera year or two ago. I would argue that a signifi

1. Today we have 4 browser implementors. Only one of them doesn't also own an operating system (FF). We lost opera year or two ago. I would argue that a significant factor in this shrinking landscape is the fact that Apple has locked away ~10% of the market forever (and this 10% is not a random sampling - it includes many high value customers). Sure implementing a browser is technically challenging - my argument is that Apple's policy has altered the environment in such a way that there is no longer any reward for overcoming that challenge unless you have an operating system or some other large interest that requires you to make a browser. This will have effects on the web as a platform for years to come. You are wrong. I get you’re making a political argument because you have something against Apple, but what you’re suggesting is just wrong on the merits. Apple’s global iPhone marketshare is around 15%; it’s 35-40% in the US. When the W3C was going to shove XHTML 2 down our throats, where you had to have perfectly conforming XML markup to have a valid webpage, Apple helped form with Mozilla and Opera, the WHATWG that lead to HTML5 and web standards that made sense. It was Apple that said no to shipping Flash on the iPhone, which was the beginning of the end for proprietary media plugins. You seemed to forget about the ecosystem of open source developers that have lead the charge on implementing new open standards; Igalia was obviously able to work with Apple (and Google) to implement CSS Grid: https://blogs.igalia.com/mrego/2017/03/16/css-grid-layout-is-here-to-stay/ https://blogs.igalia.com/mrego/2017/03/16/css-grid-layout-is... Much of the variable font spec is based on Apple’s TrueType GX technology from the 1990s: https://atadistance.net/2016/09/20/truetype-gx-model-lives-on-in-opentype-variation-fonts/ https://atadistance.net/2016/09/20/truetype-gx-model-lives-o... Sure, they were behind on several important technologies, but they’ve made a ton of progress this past year or so. I created a Service Worker in the latest Safari Tech Preview that shipped two days ago: https://webkit.org/blog/8042/release-notes-for-safari-technology-preview-46/ https://webkit.org/blog/8042/release-notes-for-safari-techno... You also might want to check the feature list; you might be surprised: https://webkit.org/status/ https://webkit.org/status/ Apple is a convenient target for a lot of things; I get that, but I can’t see how anything you’ve said holds up when we take an objective look at things.