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I really can't wait to clean the first malicious browser out of a relative's iPhone and try and unsubscribe from Tim Sweeny's app store with his own 30% margin to spend on blackjack and hookers.
The new status quo will be worse than the old one.
fighting to sustain a monopoly it indicates to me a lack of ideas about the future reacting rather than preparing
Why Safari can’t just launch from a Home Screen bookmark even if the user has chosen another “default browser”? PWAs are already a separate “island” of storage and share nothing with Safari App… Microsoft does it all the time with Edge on Windows.
The truth is usually a lot less interesting than the hypothesis.
A lot of this article appears to be based on the belief that the security architecture of iOS and MacOS are identical. This seems ... an unlikely assumption
[1] https://help.apple.com/pdf/security/en_US/apple-platform-sec... [PDF]
Why Safari can’t just launch from a Home Screen bookmark even if the user has chosen another “default browser”? PWAs are already a separate “island” of storage and share nothing with Safari App… Microsoft does it all the time with Edge on Windows.
Edge on windows, the same edge on windows that got caught slurping up chrome tabs recently?
Browsers are now the same size code base wise, as operating systems. They are in fact tiny OS's with permissions models and execution environments.
I think the author makes the point that safari made a lot of progress, they paid for a lot of work, that they are throwing away. Spite is a reason, but security is also a reason... We have seen how bad things can be when browsers cohabitate on desktops, putting up hard walls now solves the problem before it starts. Phone users aren't loosing (much) of anything, taking away something that they didn't have and didn't exist MIGHT be for security reasons...
See MS stealing chrome tabs.
We're getting to the point where browsers can do really cool things and they're scared of losing their 30% mafia like tax.
It's the browser wars all over again.
It's a shame, Apple is in a place to be the leader and decent, instead it decides not to be both.