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Why is that sad?
by Tom1380 10mo ago
Why is that sad?
- arcanemachiner 10mo agoBecause Apple's walled garden is for your own good, Citizen.
- Isamu 10mo agoSo WebKit is the walled garden? I thought it was the App Store.
- wlesieutre 10mo agoThe App Store is the walled garden that doesn't allow anyone else to ship a browser engine, except in certain markets where they have been forced by law to create a "Web Browser Engine Entitlement" that non-WebKit browsers can use with super special permission from Apple.
- wkat4242 10mo agoAnd so many strings attached that they don't really do so in practice :(
- frizlab 10mo agoWhen it avoids a chrome (and thus google) monopoly: yes. And don’t talk to me about Firefox engine. Its market share is negligible and the whole thing only even still exists because google allows it.
- soperj 10mo agoI would agree with this except Apple had done a terrible job of keeping up with standards ala IE for the longest time.
- rimunroe 10mo agoBecause so many people use iPhones as their primary devices it's hard for businesses to accept making their websites only support browsers which are built off Chromium. It somewhat limits the power Google has to unilaterally dictate web standards.