Re:Five Walled Gardens: Operating systems are holding browse...
by coldtea on Monday September 26, 2022 @04:16PM
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>What competition is "this brand of smartphone is stuck with Safari"? It's not competition if there are no advantages to be gained from the choices you make.
It's not about competition in browser choices as an iOS user. I'm talking about more diversity across platforms, as opposed to a single engine everywhere, and especially about who'd control that engine (if the single engine was some FOSS one, created by strong community or cross-industry collaboration, I'd might be ok with that).
So, iOS being Webkit only, means it's still more competition than Chrome/Google dictating everything about the web, and taking it into whatever direction it pleased it.
At least now websites NEED to be compatible with iOS, and Google still needs to at least somewhat pretend to care for web standards, and it also means whatever Google unilatery pushes as a new web API or feature doesn't just get adopted by everybody.
It's not about competition in browser choices as an iOS user. I'm talking about more diversity across platforms, as opposed to a single engine everywhere, and especially about who'd control that engine (if the single engine was some FOSS one, created by strong community or cross-industry collaboration, I'd might be ok with that).
So, iOS being Webkit only, means it's still more competition than Chrome/Google dictating everything about the web, and taking it into whatever direction it pleased it.
At least now websites NEED to be compatible with iOS, and Google still needs to at least somewhat pretend to care for web standards, and it also means whatever Google unilatery pushes as a new web API or feature doesn't just get adopted by everybody.