Re:Apple execs: Let's take a 30% cut of Uber and Lyft's memb...
by rekoil on Thursday January 13, 2022 @12:19PM
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I agree it's a stupid problem to have when simple solutions exist (use cool features while developing, babel them into old boring code that runs on your smart fridge from 2002), but it's a problem nonetheless and a problem we wouldn't have if it was possible to install a new non-Safari/WebKit browser on iOS 12.
Even Microsoft, which invested huge amounts of money in Edge, packed it in when Google kept telling people that Edge was going to kill their firstborn (or whatever other tactics they use, like allegedly making YouTube not work properly.)
So, yeah, I'm fine with allowing other browsers - a few years after we've seen Google successfully broken up.
Meanwhile, I'm fine with websites just not using Optional Chaining operators. It's syntactical sugar. And frankly, rapid iterations on JavaScript, adding optional features only supported on Chrome and then making people think the web is broken without them, is a huge source of Google's ability to bully people into using Chrome.