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> Firstly, a lot of web developers have stopped caring about the standards process. Whatever functionality Google adds is their definition of “the web”.

Businesses who hire such web developers will lose huge amounts of sales, since 90% of visitors are on mobile and half of those are on Safari.





How do you think that’s going to play out once Apple are legally barred from mandating WebKit on iOS?

Web will finally become ChromeOS, takeover goal achieved.

Or other engines gain a foothold and web devs have to go back to standards.

Which other engines?

Why would they gain a foothold on iOS when they haven’t on desktop?


Extensions without going through the App Store is one

You don’t need a different engine for that; Orion can install extensions without going through the App Store today.

I think most people will continue using the default Safari browser.

That’s not how it played out on desktop and it isn’t how it will play out on mobile.

I use Chrome on Android because it's the default browser and I'm lazy, not because I actually like it. When a phone forces me to choose one I'm not very likely to choose Chrome. It's going to be the same for iOS users.



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