It's worse than it looks, folks.https://twitter.com/ElliottZ/status/1237616336718540800 …
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Y'all are watching Apple knife the web to death, one cut a day for a decade. We're way past a thousand cuts, and they sure had help from FB.
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Replying to @slightlylate
Maybe just stop with the conspiracy theories. They really don’t help anyone.
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There's no conspiracy. Everyone is doing what incentives suggest absent fair rules of the road. It's slow erosion. Apple killed browser competition because it helps cement native + fears about insecure runtime. FB undermines browser choice on Android for similarly narrow reasons
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This is all very dramatic. You just said they were knifing the web to death. Then you said they killed browser competition, and implied they did it intentionally. Sounds pretty conspiracy theory like to me.
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It's *written into the app store rules*:https://mobile.twitter.com/slightlylate/status/1191026446715604993?lang=en …
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Alex Russell @slightlylateSection 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.Show this thread2 replies 0 retweets 5 likes -
Replying to @slightlylate @devongovett
Safari started (back in '08) as a fully modern browser of the time. Lack of competition took a long time to rot the mighty ship, but what I'm telling you is that it's leaking below the water line now.
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I shared some of the data last year. It's a slow-moving emergency; the sort humans are worst at recognising and dealing with:https://vimeo.com/364402896
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I think it is clear that Apple is investing in the web, just in different areas than you want. Privacy, security, and user facing features seem to have priority over new web APIs designed by Google. Look at the latest iPad Safari becoming a real desktop class browser.
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And let's talk about that investment level for a minute. Have you tried making a media app on iOS Safari? Doing anything offline? And how 'bout that privacy work? https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.07421.pdf …
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