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by olkingcole 1473 days ago
Someone correct me if I'm wrong but isn't it just entirely about competition with the app store? That they don't want to invest in features for apps on a platform "owned" by their largest competitor that then compete with apps on their own platform? On the app store Apple makes 15%, on the web they make zero and Google likely gets whatever ad revenue. I'm not defending Apple, Safari causes has caused me professional pain in the past, but it seems predictable.
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threeseed 1473 days ago
> Someone correct me if I'm wrong but isn't it just entirely about competition with the app store

At a previous WWDC they talked about service workers and how they have the potential to significantly impact the performance and battery life of devices if abused.

And so a lot of effort has been made trying to isolate and optimise them.

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rektide 1473 days ago
It's a mystery! Who knows? But it's not a mystery.

There's definitely good people working to advance the web at Apple. That's clear. Apple's even hired up some. But there's still endless struggles, endless conflicts, huge huge parts of the map Apple insists are bad for users that they will not do. Like SharedWorkers, which until recently they insisted they would not do & were bad for users.

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