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by spartanatreyu 1809 days ago
Counterpoints:

> Safari certainly cannot match the first two reasons.

1. Most users view websites on their phones. Safari is the only browser on iPhone (there are other browser skins, but they're all forced to run on top of Safari). The market share of iOS devices is usually about at least 50% in developed nations.

2. iOS has proprietary features, it is known as the App Store. If you want to develop certain things, you must use the app store, the browser is locked out of those features (even if all other browser vendors have them).

> But it cannot match the third either, because the development of standard web features is going on at good pace (see <https://webkit.org/status/>).

3. I probably don't need to go into this point since it's common knowledge that Safari has always been the least compliant browser in terms of web standards. Their history of holding back features or implementing features with critical flaws that make them useless has been a recurring trend for the last decade. Just because they have checked a box on a table, doesn't mean the feature is anything close to useable.