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Comment by troupo

8 months ago

> so many of the features are missing, and one part is it encroaching on the iOS apps territory.

Be careful when listing those features. Many of those "encroaching" are Chrome-only non-standards

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talldayo  8 months ago

And some of them, like WebGPU, are Khronos IP that Apple has no reason to object to except on an ideological and profit-maximizing basis. I wonder why Apple would deliberately avoid an API that might obsolete the requirement for games to use the App Store? Do you have any ideas?

  • troupo  8 months ago

    > like WebGPU, are Khronos IP that Apple has no reason to object to except on

    You do know that Apple is basically the original author of WebGPU, right (together with Mozilla)?

    > I wonder why Apple would deliberately avoid an API that might obsolete the requirement for games to use the App Store

    And your fantasy of Apple deliberately avoiding it is based on what exactly?

    https://webkit.org/blog/9528/webgpu-and-wsl-in-safari/

    https://webkit.org/blog/14879/webgpu-now-available-for-testi...

    • talldayo  8 months ago

      > You do know that Apple is basically the original author of WebGPU, right (together with Mozilla)?

      Apple is the original author of a lot of tech they end up abandoning. Certainly a lot of Khronos IP, paging through their history.

      > And your fantasy of Apple deliberately avoiding it is based on what exactly?

      Based on a 4 year (!!!) porting time from MacOS Safari to iOS Safari. Basically textbook feet-dragging there.

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