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Chrome Project 🐡 & Web Standards TL; Blink API OWNER Named PWAs w/ @phae; probably making her ☕ DMs open. Tweets my own; press@google.com for official comms.

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    1. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 3 Nov 2019
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      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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      iOS is worst-case-scenario for the web, full stop. It's hard to overstate how insidious and widespread its impact has been. https://twitter.com/JoubranJad/status/1190665122831912962 …
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    2. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 3 Nov 2019
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      First, no matter how app-like it is, Section 4.2 of the App Store Review Guidelines excludes web experiences from being discovered via the search box where users go to add things to their homescreen. Structural prejudice against the web by policy: https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#4.2 …pic.twitter.com/SViQETHtUF

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    3. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 3 Nov 2019
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      Next, Apple under-invests in Safari's engine (WebKit) in ways that cumulatively make it difficult to do anything new and ambitious. The cumulative effect of the under-investment is hard to overstate, but it can be graphed: https://web-confluence.appspot.com/#!/confluence pic.twitter.com/d6RhoRw0Vz

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    4. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 3 Nov 2019
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      On every other OS, the way we have dealt with laggard browsers is through competition. Remember haranguing friends and family to install Firefox? I sure do. Apple broke that too, via Section 2.5.6: https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#2.5.6 …pic.twitter.com/D5Eb5uFfSE

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    5. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 3 Nov 2019
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      Section 2.5.6 is the Hotel Cupertino clause: you can pick any browser you like, but you can't choose a better web. In fact, iOS prevents other browsers from even replacing Safari as the system default. 2.5.6 caps web progress at the rate that Apple (under) invests.

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    6. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 3 Nov 2019
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      All of this has been done to preserve the linkage between proprietary OS/APIs, an exclusive software ecosystem, and the hardware sales that software ecosystem supports. The easiest iOS device sale is the upgrader who is worried about losing their software if they switch horses.

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    7. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 3 Nov 2019
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      If you're a web developer, this means that iOS -- the whole OS -- is the new IE6. Your CEO and wealthiest users won't switch off it, so it taxes everything you do. They also can't imagine the web being great because, for them, it isn't.

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    8. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 3 Nov 2019
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      If you make your living on the web, it's crucial to understand that Apple is *not on your side*. Every dollar you spend on iOS hardware is a vote against your future.

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      Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 3 Nov 2019
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      A necessary addendum: don't take this out on the WebKit team. All of these decisions were made far above their pay-grade. They want a web that can work just as much as you do. Yes, they're Apple employees, but just as oppressed by this as the rest of us.

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        2. Chris Lord‏ @cwiiis 5 Nov 2019
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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.

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        3. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 5 Nov 2019
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          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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        2. Steven Roussey‏ @sroussey 3 Nov 2019
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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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        3. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 3 Nov 2019
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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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        2. Chris Messina‏Verified account @chrismessina 3 Nov 2019
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          Chris Messina Retweeted othermaciej

          They're hiringhttps://twitter.com/othermaciej/status/1190781109568540672?s=21 …

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          othermaciej @othermaciej
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          WebKit team at Apple is hiring, both for browser engine development and for an additional Evangelist. There’s also iOS UI coding roles available for system UI. DM me if interested in any of these.
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        3. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 3 Nov 2019
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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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        2. Felix Salmon‏Verified account @felixsalmon 3 Nov 2019
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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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        3. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 3 Nov 2019
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          I think we both know I can't comment on that.

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        2. Ari Paparo‏Verified account @aripap 3 Nov 2019
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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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        3. Kuba Suder‏ @kuba_suder 3 Nov 2019
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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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