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This analogy would work if Google was deliberately holding back new features on the web to favor its proprietary operating system but in fact the situation is p
by cageface 6y ago
This analogy would work if Google was deliberately holding back new features on the web to favor its proprietary operating system but in fact the situation is pretty much the opposite.
I also don't understand why everyone is up with pitchforks at Google on this when Apple did the same thing to URLs a while ago. I guess engineers are just as susceptible to groupthink as anyone else.
- gruez 6y ago>This analogy would work if Google was deliberately holding back new features on the web to favor its proprietary operating system but in fact the situation is pretty much the opposite. They do kind of do that. Rather than going through the consensus process for getting a web standard added, they implement it in chrome then unilaterally write a standard for themselves. See for example, the SGX (signed exchange) "standard" they pushed out.
- amanaplanacanal 6y agoMost people don't use apple.
- cageface 6y agoApple is massively popular in the US. The last few projects I've worked on our users were 50% iOS Safari.