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Apple drags its feet on iOS Safari very deliberately. Supporting advanced web APIs on iOS would mean providing an open, non-monetizable alternative to the App S
by robgibbons 5y ago
Apple drags its feet on iOS Safari very deliberately. Supporting advanced web APIs on iOS would mean providing an open, non-monetizable alternative to the App Store platform for users and developers.
And yet, Safari's market share on mobile is significant enough that we can't just ignore it. Thus, Apple holds back the entire web. Apple's conflict of interest is plain to see, and IMHO their hand should be forced by regulation.
- kitsunesoba 5y agoThat’s true to some extent, but there are also several things that the WebKit team has not implemented due to concerns centered around privacy or loss of user control, which are often shared by Mozilla. Apple should probably do more to keep up with web standards but they absolutely should not accept everything that Google tries to push through with Chrome. At this point, with Firefox marketshare sitting in the low single digit percentages, Apple with WebKit is the only meaningful opposition to Google and it would be incredibly damaging to lose that.
- Dma54rhs 5y agoAt least Microsoft provided their dumb multi gb VMs to test on their old ie browsers. Apple expects you to buy their hardware. I hope the browser dies out as soon as possible, it's better for the Web and whole world than chrome based dominance.