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Re:How Apple overcame its culture of secrecy to create AirPo... by imwillofficial on Monday May 09, 2022 @05:26AM (#31312126)
It is absolutely groundbreaking, so much so that every major browser that the entire population of the planet use, sans Firefox, is based on technology that was born in WebKit.

As for the “apple can’t innovate”, I don’t buy it. Apple of the 90s was full of poorly conceived ideas. I see little difference in the “world changing product development velocity” of Apple then and now.

I do miss the flavor of old apple though, grey has somehow replaced beige as the “boring color every computer uses”

Re:How Apple overcame its culture of secrecy to create AirPo... by aconst on Monday May 09, 2022 @09:03AM (#31313517)
WebKit which was forked from KHTML. Apple did work, of course, but they did not make that from scratch.

I love Apple, been a user since we had a MacPlus at home (then a Mac 2Vi, then a LC3, then PPC7600, then...) but let's not be overzealous.

Re:How Apple overcame its culture of secrecy to create AirPo... by imwillofficial on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @07:44AM (#31325904)
Have you actually looked at the deltas between KHTML and WebKit? There is a reason WebKit was chosen.