You have a point, yet I feel the situation isn't as bright as you make it look. I think Safari isn't broken in the ways IE was, because IE always had comptetit

You have a point, yet I feel the situation isn't as bright as you make it look. I think Safari isn't broken in the ways IE was, because IE always had comptetitors running along it and pushing the enveloppe where Microsoft was pulling the brakes. Firefox and later Chrome were handicaped in adoption, yet had little to no limitations on the features they wanted to add. In comparison no other browser can run with the same privileges as Safari on the phone, while the iPhone is a dominant platform. So there just isn't the same space to innovate in a profitable way. The only company who can afford pushing the envelope is Google, and at this point their only real competitor is Firefox, that they basically pay to keep alive. They also have little incentve to really push the web as it doesn't impact their bottom line (native app ads also go in their pockets afterall)