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Let's see where they find their 30% if browsers were required to provide (essentially) 100% features of native apps, and if they were required not to charge for

Let's see where they find their 30% if browsers were required to provide (essentially) 100% features of native apps, and if they were required not to charge for them. Maybe iPhone costs would increase a few percent, probably not. This is just egregious rent seeking.

skydhash 3y ago
That would just require browser devs to maintain a whole new OS. Native API are much more complicated than what is available on browsers
- littlestymaar 3y ago
  Fun fact: they already do. (Or at least Mozilla did, but given their massive engineering power it would be surprising if Google wasn't doing it as well). From what I heard at a Mozilla meetup a few years ago, the only thing that prevented Mozilla to ship the actual Firefox to iOS back then was Apple ToS banning apps with their own JIT compiler built-in.
- dlivingston 3y ago
  Chromium targets iOS already: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/ios/build_instructions.md https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/i...