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>"they fail to see the systematic risks" Or they also fail at providing a solution. Apple has no incentive to improve Safari. "It just works" is what their cultists paid to have the honor to parrot, and they enjoy the majority of web market share of people with actual wages and disposable income. That's why the sell culture, not their people's data (directly, yet). Since it's not "Safari" that's broken (since iPhones…
If you’re referring to people as “cultists”, consider that your point might not be as strong as you think. If you have a non-emotional argument about a browser, try making it with logic and data rather than emotion. For example, demonstrate awareness of where the browsers rank on the features which web developers really need (Google’s devrel team likes to highlight PWA features almost nobody uses even on Chrome) and…
They are both using the innate incompatibilities between browsers to further entrench their mobile device market share positions.
Safari is (unanimously) shit - even without Google's PWA's moot gloating.
Apple disallows browsers other than Safari, and have deprecated Windows/Android versions.
>how why the “walled garden” metaphor applies more to a niche browser than the dominant one