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by terhechte 728 days ago
Nah. I used to be a iOS developer. The official native frameworks are buggy as hell. Everything is broken all the time. Occam's razor is on this behaviour being just another bug that receives little attention because everything else is also buggy. I can't even blame them, the iOS api surface is huge, and every year there's new frameworks and every couple of years new devices. Android has the advantage of being open source, which allows external contributions to fix bugs, which oftentimes fixes the small-percentage bugs because one developer ran into it and decided to fix it. On iOS this is impossible, and there's no corporate incentive to fix small-percentage bugs.
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They have trillions, no excuse.
You’re wrong, this has nothing to do with bugs. We’re speaking of Safari not implenting features for years and pushing back many of them because of “security”. All bs.