If you install Firefox on Windows, MacOS, Linux, ChromeOS, or Android you get *real* Firefox, complete with the Gecko engine. But not on iOS. Apple cripples engine competition in silent, deeply impactful ways.https://twitter.com/slightlylate/status/1176856950086275072 …
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I think we've seen pretty clearly that if it weren't for other engines existing (and even with them), Chrome will kind of ignore the W3C and just do whatever the hell it wants. Monopolies are bad for the web. Always.
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First, I run standards for Chrome, so I can say categorically that we hold ourselves to a process that is the opposite of "do whatever you want". Next, who do you think the W3C *is*? At TPAC 2 weeks ago, Google sent more engineers and PMs than any two other engines *combined*.
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And what does OSS and the (sometimes exercised) threat of forking do to the equation? And, more locally to this thread, how much does not being able to deploy a fork further undermine the things you might hope OSS and diversity will achieve for the ecosystem?
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That is, if you value engine diversity, isn't what Apple has done on iOS the worst possible long-term outcome, undermining all the vectors along which competition and diversity can improve things?
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“In that configuration, it only takes 34% of engines adopting that policy to stall all progress.” In single engine configuration, it would only take that one to stall all progress. Monopoly almost never leads to progress. Case in point — Apple, the topic of this thread.
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