[thawaya3113]

Tying web browsers to the OS release was a disaster on the Mac and PCs, to the extent that both Apple and Microsoft have stopped doing that.

I don’t understand why iOS would be any different.

[corrral]

It's a fundamental piece of functionality that you target with a release, if you're using webviews, and a ton of apps do. It's possible to argue that it shouldn't be, but it is, and that does come with some real benefits for developers.

On desktop, the popular solution to the same problem is to bundle an entire web browser.