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>>samwil+(OP)
For anyone making the "Apple is the last bastion against Chrome dominance"-argument: Apple is not in it for the web. Quite the opposite, more likely. They are all about control, not letting you choose a browser.

Also, I don't see how fighting a potential monoculture with an actual monoculture is a solution.

For further reading: https://infrequently.org/2022/06/apple-is-not-defending-brow...

>>rejhga+xs
Because it's not about what you can run in the iPhone that you may not even buy. By keeping Safari alive this way, web developers, including those at Google, are forced to code against "web browsers" instead of just Chrome.

The mass of iOS users "forced" to use the browser that comes with the device they buy gives you more chances that a given website will work on Firefox on your personal computer.

That link is a blog from a Chrome engineer and shows a chart of Chrome cornerning the browser market with the caption of "Destkop OSes have long created a vibrant market for browser choice, enabling competitors not tied to OS defaults to flourish over the years.", it's ridiculous.