It's *written into the app store rules*:https://mobile.twitter.com/slightlylate/status/1191026446715604993?lang=en …
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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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Replying to @slightlylate @devongovett
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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Replying to @slightlylate
Pretty sure it was a lot more complicated than that and you know it.
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Replying to @devongovett
I'm sure that, given the staffing of their team, it was a relatively large investment. That's the problem.
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Replying to @devongovett
The team is so darned small. They're great, but *wildly* understaffed. Apple could solve this by allowing better engines, or by investing reasonably. Doing neither gets you what we'v got: slow rot.
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Replying to @slightlylate
“Better” is subjective, based on your priorities. What in particular do you think is “rotting”? As a web dev, I can’t think of something that I’m excited about using in a real world project that I’m only waiting on Safari to implement. IMO they’ve kept up pretty well.
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That statement is worryingly circular, and part of how the architecture of control works: by withholding APIs for years, developers don't consider other widely-implemented features "available". We collectively lower our sights in response. Deadweight loss.
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Replying to @slightlylate
Ok, can you point to an example? Thinking back a few years, I can’t remember waiting to use a feature, or at least not for very long.
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We launched Service Workers and Push Notifications in Q1'15 after 3 years of (very public) work which Apple declined to join until (IIRC) '17. Safari launched a partially workable version of SWs in 11.1 at the end of Q3'18: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safari_version_history#Safari_11 … https://caniuse.com/#feat=serviceworkers …
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