Hobson's Browser: How Apple, Facebook and Google broke the mobile browser market

Re:Hobson's Browser: How Apple, Facebook and Google broke th... by feross on Saturday July 24, 2021 @10:26PM (#27946155)

This is an inane comment. The author Alex Russell speaks for himself not his employer. He's always been outspoken on Twitter and he spends much of the article criticizing Google, the place he worked at for over 12 years.

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Re:Hobson's Browser: How Apple, Facebook and Google broke th... by enos_feedler on Sunday July 25, 2021 @02:32AM (#27947216)

well it seemed a bit funny that he used to bash apple while he worked at google and now that he works at microsoft he bashes both apple and google. in all cases he leaves his current employer out of the criticism.

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Re:Hobson's Browser: How Apple, Facebook and Google broke th... by ksec on Sunday July 25, 2021 @04:34PM (#27952682)

I guess that he joined Google because he is pissed with Apple and joined Microsoft because he is pissed with Google as well.

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Re:Hobson's Browser: How Apple, Facebook and Google broke th... by enos_feedler on Monday July 26, 2021 @06:25PM (#27966241)

Maybe the next step is to create a startup and bash all incumbents

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Re:Hobson's Browser: How Apple, Facebook and Google broke th... by dmitriid on Sunday July 25, 2021 @02:09AM (#27947114)

Yes, he's very outspoken on Twitter where he twists reality to suit his own worldview (which is almost invariably "Safari bad, put Chrome on iOS") and he completely ignores the realities that are:

- So many APIs he raves about are considered harmful by both Safari and Firefox: https://webapicontroversy.com/

- Chrome is blatantly ignoring all input and forces poorly specified internal Chrome APIs onto the world under the guise of "standards"

But sure. "He's outspoken on Twitter" should really absolve him and any criticism of what he writes is "inane".

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Re:Hobson's Browser: How Apple, Facebook and Google broke th... by torartc on Sunday July 25, 2021 @12:50PM (#27950708)

I don't typically agree with Russle on most things, but Safari is in fact bad.

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Re:Hobson's Browser: How Apple, Facebook and Google broke th... by dmitriid on Sunday July 25, 2021 @04:17PM (#27952547)

Safari is, in fact, fine. The "Safari bad" argument comes from people who are keen on turning the Web into something it can never be: an app platform.

I very very very much prefer the "bad Safari" to the shiny Chrome which pushes (and ships) "standards" so bad other browser developers can't even understand them [1]

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/459

Edit: grammar and typos

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