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> Once users are able to install Chrome on iPhones, developers will just abandon every other engine wholesale. This is the thing that is most concerning. We’ve
by JimDabell 1y ago
> Once users are able to install Chrome on iPhones, developers will just abandon every other engine wholesale.
This is the thing that is most concerning. We’ve seen this happen before. We ended up with an Internet Explorer monoculture that paralysed front-end development for over a decade. Huge numbers of developers were happily writing Internet Explorer-only websites and didn’t care about any other browser at all. There’s a real danger that this ends the open web and turns it into a Chrome platform controlled by Google.
- sunaookami 1y agoIE was bad because development stopped for years and nobody could use modern web standards without supporting IE.