Comment by YmiYugy
9 months ago
As far as I know a native Chromium port to iOS is well under way. Whether Google will release Chrome is a different question, but I think it's likely. I think Google would love to bring Blink Chrome on iOS everywhere and there is a decent amount of momentum with developers and regulators to pressure Apple into allowing third party browser engines even outside the EU, but that completely goes away, if no actual engine get's ported to iOS. Blink Chrome on iOS probably gets a lot of enterprise web apps to drop WebKit support. That would probably that Chrome gets way more market share on iOS and with it lot's of telemetry for Google and also less money to Apple for default search engine placement. It's not great for the web as a standardized platform, but it will probably happen anyways.
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