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> If more people complained about a lack of real browser choice on iOS, including developers and users, Apple would eventually have to cave.

Nope. Don't you remember just a few years ago, when everyone was screaming at Apple for years to put Flash on its mobile devices? Apple never caved. Apple doubled down, because Apple was smart enough to figure out that Flash was a battery-sucking, security-ruining disaster.

Gee, kinda like allowing third parties to control the web browser on a mobile device would be. Fancy that!



> Apple doubled down, because Apple was smart enough to figure out that Flash was a battery-sucking, security-ruining disaster.

Apple doubled down because Apple was never going to concede to ANY party that might take their control away ever again.

Apple is never going to concede on this either because eventually people would then use the browser to escape the App Store.

You can scream until you are blue in the face and Apple will ignore you because unfettered Javascript is an existential threat to their walled garden.




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