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I believe in competition and browser choice. But if your position was to win, we would immediately have neither. You are advocating solely for Chrome, whether y
by ocdtrekkie 5y ago
I believe in competition and browser choice. But if your position was to win, we would immediately have neither. You are advocating solely for Chrome, whether you understand why and how or not.
Priorities are great to have, but yours are wrong and harmful. If you win, we all lose, and I fear you will come to understand it too late.
- mtomweb 5y agoI'm not advocating solely for chrome. Safari/webkit was severely underfunded and neglected by Apple and was slipping further behind every year in addition to being unsuitable / unstable as an application platform. By restoring competition to iOS it will push Apple to fund them properly or they risk losing 150m for each 1% of users per year that move to another browser. Safari only competes on one platform and that is MacOS. If you read through our regulatory submission at https://open-web-advocacy.org/#where https://open-web-advocacy.org/#where we run through this argument in detail. It should also be important to note that blink is a fork of webkit which is a fork of khtml. There is nothing stoping competition within the chromium browsers as outlined in section 8 of the document. We want Safari/webkit to succeed.
- ocdtrekkie 5y agoChoosing not to implement insecure and poorly thought out features isn't "underfunding" or "neglecting" Safari. It's a choice to put users, not Google, first. Google has used a litany of underhanded tactics to obliterate every single browser in an open space. Claiming opening up iOS to competing browsers would be helping Safari succeed is just ignoring history.