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Comment by leptons

8 days ago

Firefox gets paid by Google. A lot. Maybe part of their agreement is to not implement some features because it would compete with Chrome. I don't really know, and I don't really care what Firefox does or doesn't do. I only care that Apple does not allow other browsers to use their own browser engines. Opera mobile also implements the APIs I need (on Android). Even MS Edge supports the APIs. Firefox can join Apple in being lame, I don't really care.

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troupo  8 days ago

"Every browser that doesn't jump when Google says 'jump' is driven by malicious actors and intent that I can't articulate beyond some tin-foil conspiracy theories" is not as good an argument as you think it is

  • leptons  8 days ago

    I really don't care what browsers do or don't implement. I only care that Apple doesn't allow other browsers to use their own browser engines on iOS. That's it, that's all, and it also got notice from the DOJ, which is one of many reasons Apple is getting sued by the DOJ.

    Until Apple lets other browser engines on iOS, they are behaving like greedy tyrants.

    • troupo  7 days ago

      > I really don't care what browsers do or don't implement.

      Oh yes, you do. To the point of inventing contract clauses for Firefox.

      It's just extremely unfortunate that Safari is now between a rock and a hard place (only because of Apple) as really they are the only web engine of note to withstand "whatever Chrome spits out is standard now"

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  • kelthuzad  7 days ago

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    • troupo  7 days ago

      > by smearing critics as "conspiracy theorists"

      I mean, @lepton literally wrote this: "Maybe part of their agreement is to not implement some features because it would compete with Chrome" about Firefox. No smearing required.

      > Your deceptive rhetoric in defense of Apple's anti-competitive business practices i

      I literally say nothing avout Apple's business practices. All I'm talking are a bunch of Chrome-only non-standards that people on HN pretend are standards and claim that everyone must immediately implement them

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