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I'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 be
by mtomweb 5y ago
I'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.