Asked an entire room full of webdevs yesterday if any of them knew that FF/Chrome/Opera/Brave/etc. for iOS weren't allowed to compete on engine quality. Zero hands up.
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Apple undermining the future of the web is a scandal with echoes of FB's IAB shenanigans. The common thread is hiding bad engines behind UI that *suggests* that everything is on the level. It's expectation arbitrage, and the future of web is what's being shorted.
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react is the way forward. embedding a browser-engine, waiting out vendor infights/shady policies for basic features is futile. we need one standard: view=fn(state) + reconcilers to render it out natively on any platform. reacts eco system is already mostly platform independent.
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The open nature of the web is completely against the walled garden philosophy. They won't be able to make money from subscriptions from a web page, which they can on the app store. They have little to no incentive to push for web.
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This seems intentional. Apple wants all apps in the App Store
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