Comment by cosmic_cheese
1 year ago
It depends on how this is all handled. If Chromium/Blink were handed over to a Blender-style non-profit that were sponsored by the enormous number of companies that depend on it (including several cash-flush multinationals), things would continue more or less as-is, minus inappropriate changes requested by non-Chrome branches of Google.
I think it’s also possible that in a world where Chrome/Blink is no longer guaranteed to dominate there’d be increased interest in contributions to WebKit, which is still quite open and flexible, helping bring it up to par for non-Apple platforms.
> If Chromium/Blink were handed over to a Blender-style non-profit that were sponsored by the enormous number of companies that depend on it (including several cash-flush multinationals),
The "that depend on it" is a past tense analysis. When those "cash-flush multinationals" need to roll out the next version of their product, are they going to continue to bet on a "Blender-style non-profit"?
Or are they just going to ship an iOS app like everyone else since "everyone knows web sucks on Apple now" and "everyone has an iPhone anyway"?
Presumably these companies will continue to want the business of the majority non-iOS-user planet, plus there’s all the companies that have integrated Chromium into their desktop tech stacks by way of Electron and CEF. Most of these companies probably already ship an iOS app anyway.