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Re:Five Walled Gardens: Operating systems are holding browse... by tgv on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @02:20AM (#32992048)
May I remark that you're not answering the question?

> Those are APIs available to all native apps they have literally nothing to do with underlying browser engines.

Except that Safari doesn't expose them while Chrome wants to (or already does), offering Google more fingerprinting capabilities. Native apps don't send data to Google, Chrome does.

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Re:Five Walled Gardens: Operating systems are holding browse... by afavour on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @07:36AM (#32994013)
Safari absolutely exposes gyroscope data. Not sure where you’re getting the idea that it doesn’t.

The problem is that Apple is slow to implement useful web standards. I don’t think the battery API is all that useful either but WebRTC is incredibly useful and it took Apple years to catch up. If they had meaningful competition in the iOS browser space they’d have more incentive to try.

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