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Re:All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of thei... by kevingadd on Thursday May 01, 2025 @01:18AM (#43853954)
I'm quite certain Apple would have continued their browser engineering and security efforts with or without Google. In the first place, Chromium was a fork of WebKit (which itself is derived from the work of the KHTML team). Apple values the security of their iOS users a lot so they wouldn't have just sat around and watched them get exploited.

It's true that Google 'got there first' on a lot of stuff and that groups like Project Zero do incredible work but the idea that we'd be nowhere without Google is a bit silly.

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Re:All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of thei... by abhisek on Thursday May 01, 2025 @01:29AM (#43853999)
Agreed that Apple would have continued browser engineering and focused on security as well in response to attack techniques.

I am not suggesting that browsers would not evolve without Google. I am looking at the impact on web today. Perhaps new technologies will emerge, perhaps browser development will adopt different model or perhaps native apps will get a boost.

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Re:All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of thei... by creato on Thursday May 01, 2025 @01:25AM (#43853979)
As of 2023 Apple had done very little of this to iMessage, a far simpler app than a browser: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37425007
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Re:All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of thei... by amadeuspagel on Thursday May 01, 2025 @08:22AM (#43856739)
Apple doesn't invest sufficient resources in Safari even with Google's competition and support[1].

[1]: https://webventures.rejh.nl/blog/2024/history-of-safari-show...

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Re:All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of thei... by briankelly on Thursday May 01, 2025 @04:34PM (#43863041)
That would be because they aren’t meaningfully competing here. They both profit tremendously by the status quo and so do not step on each other’s toes.
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