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Apple is headed down the path that the old Microsoft was headed. Which they, Microsoft, have ironically backed away from.

I guess what I'm saying is that in some ways Safari is the new IE, but without the same reach. The same kind of vendor lock in and shitty expensive tooling.

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Apple is worse in many ways. The situation with Safari on iOS with it being the only rendering engine you can use is akin to Microsoft forbidding other browsers on Windows and only allowing browser skin UIs that sit atop IE6.

I've reported numerous iOS bugs in the webkit project and most of the times I never get answer.

I also frequently report bugs in the Chromium project and I usually get an answer in less than an hour. Never a bug I reported was ignored, legitimate or not.

Recently I wrote an article criticising iOS from a dev perspective and posted a tweet from a core webkit member:

> that's because they have a lot more engineers and evangelists/dev-rel than Apple

...referring to Google and the Chromium project.

Well, hours after I published the article the Twitter user was deleted.

Here's the article in question: https://medium.com/@Pier/why-i-hate-ios-as-a-developer-459c1...

> Apple is headed down the path that the old Microsoft was headed.

Exactly.

> Which they, Microsoft, have ironically backed away from.

Are you really sure that Microsoft backed away from this path? Just google about "Intel SGX (Software Guard Extensions)" and inform yourself how Windows 10 uses/plans to use them. To help you a little bit for researching on this topic, here are two references:

> https://sec.ch9.ms/slides/winHEC/03_WindowsSecurity.pdf

> http://www.alex-ionescu.com/Enclave%20Support%20In%20Windows...

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