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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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      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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    2. 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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    3. 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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    4. 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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    5. 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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    6. 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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    7. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 5 Nov 2019
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      We (Chrome) do not want a Chrome or Chromium-only world. It's harder to make progress on this when other browser teams under-fund engine development, tho. Puts well-meaning teams in a tough bind.

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    8. Chris Lord‏ @cwiiis 5 Nov 2019
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      Yes, true - though there's definitely a responsibility for a company with as vast resources as Google not to just muscle through.

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    9. Chris Lord‏ @cwiiis 5 Nov 2019
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      I've wondered in the past if it isn't on Google to directly help develop other engines in some cases. Thinking specifically of Mozilla, there are definitely situations where no one objects to a standard but there just aren't enough employees to spare the time to implement it.

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    10. Chris Lord‏ @cwiiis 5 Nov 2019
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      Maybe just not a tenable situation, but I struggle with the idea that rather than doing that, a company might instead just develop it in their engine only and deploy it on their vast and widely used web sites, forcing other smaller entities to scramble (being hyperbolic here)

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      Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 5 Nov 2019
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      This presumes that other vendors are willing to accept features. Our experience in WebKit and with Web Components is that this has only been the case when major sites use them. And fair enough! This is competition playing out and that seems good to me.

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