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1. pwinns+7H1[view] [source] 2023-01-24 18:22:57
>>samwil+(OP)
I am truly torn on this. If Chrome were controlled by an independent company, I would 100% agree. Shame on Apple for dictating the use of the Safari engine on iOS!

But Chrome is not controlled by an independent company. It's controlled by the largest company in the search, video, and advertising markets, and has repeatedly abused that power to degrade functionality for non-Chromium browsers, all while extending Chrome in non-standard non-secure ways.

And this:

> In addition, Apple has been underfunding Safari for the past decade leading to missing critical functionality and a buggy experience for Web App developers thus ensuring that Native Apps, another Apple revenue source, are the only viable solution.

That just seems like nonsense. The Safari team seems to be well-funded, they just have different ideas from Google about what PWAs should be allowed to do. This caused Google to fork the webkit project, and is why things like push notifications are not supported today. It's not that they can't, it's that they won't.

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2. rejhga+nM1[view] [source] 2023-01-24 18:42:22
>>pwinns+7H1
> The Safari team seems to be well-funded [...]

Meh. Safari is owned by Apple, the richest company in the world and they're beaten by a non-profit(!) who spends ~500 million / yr?

Apple only started properly funding Safari and catching up with Firefox and Chrome when regulators started looking into their practices.

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