> Imagine if Apple decided they were tired of everyone moaning about Safari's missing features and decided to go the same way as Microsoft. Not happening. It's

> Imagine if Apple decided they were tired of everyone moaning about Safari's missing features and decided to go the same way as Microsoft. Not happening. It's likely that Apple spends an inordinate amount of engineering on Safari to lock-out W3C web features that pose a competitive threat to their lucrative Monopoly: the app store. Their strategy has always appeared to be to purposefully cripple Safari to drive developers and users to the app store, and monetize there, both on the $99 annual fee for the developer's ability to publish apps, and that 30% cut on revenues from publishers. Then there's the whole arbitrary bans on certain apps that somehow undermine their control over the device and ecosystem. If they didn't have a plan to cripple Safari to drive people to the store, why else would they ban browser engines from competitors?