[addicted]

> Regular users really don’t care what browser is running the web pages they’re looking at, everyone who downloads chrome does so to get their synced bookmarks and history.

This is ahistorical. Regular users switched to Firefox and Chrome in droves from IE. And it wasn’t to sync their bookmarks. It was because they provided a much better experience.

If Blink or Gecko are able to provide a better experience than WebKit on iOS that would certainly prompt many users to switch to browsers using those engines.

[jahewson]

Seems unlikely given that out in the free world we’ve seen a consolidation around Chromium. The web is mature enough at this point that the choice of browser engine mostly isn’t a differentiating factor.

[pzo]

different browser engine can implement API that safari mobile don'w want to implement or are slacking to implement

- fullscreen on iPhone

- WebBluetooth

- WebUSB

- WebMIDI

- WebSensor

- Web Push notifications - that are less limited than in current safari

- WASM simd

- WASM multithreading

- WebGPU

This will make PWA apps less crippled.

[kmlx]

i can't wait to see what kind of tracking will be possible with these new technologies :) /s

i know these guys https://fingerprint.com use so many of these when fingerprinting.