There seems to be confusion about how, exactly, Apple keeps the web second-class on iOS. Understandable! It's the interplay of several interlocking effects. Let's examine them (thread).https://twitter.com/slightlylate/status/1190665796717957120 …
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They aren't all Apple employees
But yes, good thread. If I may mention a separate but related issue, it's hard to say which is more damaging for the web out of this and Google essentially privatising it by making sure their sites only work optimally in their browser. Also AMP. -
Hi Chris, I'm one of the point people for making Google sure sites aren't (or don't stay) Chrome only. LMK if you see new ones. That said, a frequent cause is lack of useable features in other browsers when trying to do ambitious things. I ask teams to publish these lists.
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Maybe Google should not have split from WebKit with Blink if they really cared about the web.
It was their way to contribute to iOS and block this effect, and now it’s gone. 
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You seem to think we were able to add features we thought were important while working in WebKit. Ask the question in reverse: would we have forked if we thought we *could* push things forward in the same codebase?
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Which is good! Pound for pound, they're the best in the world...but they'd need to double in size & have a totally different remit in order to fundamentally change the situation. The missing features aren't small, and leading browsers are growing the gap the whole while.
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Can you explain the incentives at the top of Apple to keep Safari/WebKit/iOS bad, in this way?
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I think we both know I can't comment on that.
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Their privacy stance is extremely anti-web but it is unfashionable to point this out since many developers hate AdTech. But removing cookies from Safari has shrunk web revenue for pubs by 60-70%.
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Why does a news site need to set cookies in order to show me ads? Ads existed on the web for many years before anyone conceived the idea to start abusing a mechanism designed to store per-site settings to track people across the whole Internet.
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