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Re:Apple is not defending browser engine choice by chanc3e on Friday June 24, 2022 @08:22AM (#31860689)
I think this is the correct take. Most comments have been developers complaining that Safari doesn't do esoteric task _x_ rather than their clients can't achieve _y_

Apple make products for the top end of customers and they don't want to be dealing with complaints from Grandma about battery life because they hit a series of dark patterns and accidentally installed Chrome and made it default.

They've made it quite clear IMO that pwa style products would be better served by a native app.

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Re:Apple is not defending browser engine choice by MCArth on Friday June 24, 2022 @09:37AM (#31861586)
That's like saying we should be writing all our applications in assembly.

No. Developer productivity is important, and it does impact the end user in quality and amount of features.

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Re:Apple is not defending browser engine choice by stjohnswarts on Saturday June 25, 2022 @12:59AM (#31872738)
It's not important to me that your job is easier. I'm a dev and I deal with hard shit 5 days out of the week. My users don't give fk about that, they only care that my product works on their phone.
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