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Safari does not compete on any OS other than MacOS. It was placing no competitive pressure on chrome, and Apple most certainly cost Firefox many billions in search revenue due to lost market share on iOS.

Also our main and primary goal is to ensure that web apps become viable. That was never going to happen, while Apple had no incentive whatsoever to invest in Safari to the level required to make a competitive browser.

OWA was only formed out of deep frustration with both the feature set and stability of Safari, born as a result of a lack of competition.

This paper is a couple of years old now, but it really describes the issues in a lot of detail: https://open-web-advocacy.org/walled-gardens-report/#introdu...