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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This is intentional. Apple literally makes billions of dollars off their App Store. If users can install PWAs via websites, they lose this massive stream of revenue, as well as control.https://www.cultofmac.com/601492/app-store-google-play-revenue-2018/ …
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Separate from everything else here I’m not 100% sure you should use a phrase like “the soft bigotry of low expectations” in this context. I’m not sure comparing browsers to Republican talking points about the under achievement of African American children is ideal.
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Separate from its original use, it’s a phrase that’s been come to be used by the right to say all affirmative action and social support structures for minorities are wrong. Examples of this use:https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/bs-ed-op-0708-trumpian-dems-20190702-story.html%3foutputType=amp …
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Microsoft did the same in glorious years of Internet Explorer. They first got huge user base / coverage. After that stopt any development on IE. Trying to kill the web. The result is, Microsoft has no web browser with significant user base at all.

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"The future of web is what's being shortened"
@apple do you care?!
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