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Then again, iOS is a better OS because it can get away with supporting no third party browser engines.
Then again, Firefox is worse on iOS because Apple can get away with banning third party browser engines.
All of these practices feel fairly benign compared to what microsoft is doing now. At the time they merely shipped the browser with the OS. I don't think this would even raise an eyebrow now. They were also accused of adding new features only in IE which forced websites to deal with incompatible browsers. /s of course this is a problem developers do not need to deal with anymore! The Microsoft we are dealing with now…
That is not true, there are over 100 web browsers on iOS, you can find them all through App store. You probably meant they all need to use the same web rendering engine optimized for iOS - WebKit. But that does not prevent them from achieving their purpose for their makers, if anything, arguably helps them as WebKit is much more performant, integrated and optimised to run on Apple devices (including macOS) than other rendering engines. Plus this is the only thing that is keeping us from a world where we have only one web rendering engine, and it would be one created by the world's largest advertising company. That would be, let's say, suboptimal outcome for the web.