For developers, Safari is crap and outdated

Re:For developers, Safari is crap and outdated by simondotau on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @03:29AM (#27969630)

I don't agree. Microsoft seriously tried with Edge, but the pace of change set by Chrome was too much for them. The only group even close to keeping pace with Google is Mozilla—and their market share numbers are starting to look concerning. Given the current trajectory, we can't place long term hopes in Mozilla.

If neither Microsoft nor Apple can keep up, and the Hacker News crowd thinks that's okay, we might as well give up on the notion of an open web and rename it the Chrome Platform.

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Re:For developers, Safari is crap and outdated by jsnell on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @04:01AM (#27969822)

Apple chooses not to keep up. They obviously would have the resources and technical competence to do it if they wanted to.

But cui bono? Apple benefits directly from crippling the web since it protects their App Store monopoly, they happen to have the perfect means of crippling the web by ensuring there will be no browser competition on iOS, and it is the area where theyre shipping their worst software. It is hard to believe that it is a coincidence rather than a cynical corporate optimization game.

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Re:For developers, Safari is crap and outdated by simondotau on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @06:09AM (#27970658)

> Apple chooses not to keep up.

Is that an opinion or do you have insider knowledge?

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Re:For developers, Safari is crap and outdated by afavour on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @08:27AM (#27971585)

The level of profit Apple achieves every year is public, not insider knowledge. They could very obviously hire some more engineers to work on WebKit without bankrupting themselves.

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