I don't use apple, but I do appreciate the suffering of limited choice their users endure for the effect of higher diversity. Thank you, iphone users.
Are you arguing that diversity of browser engines is important, but we need to stifle/suppress diversity to ensure diversity?
"Only works in Chrome" will prevent millions of users from choosing a browser; Google already fucks with Firefox in spots, because they can. Anyone who built websites in the late 90s / early 2000s remembers the IE monoculture.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers
Break it on iOS Safari and you’re losing actual revenue.
Either way you still have not proven that less user choice now somehow leads to more user choice in the future.
We know letting a dominant player abuse their position to corner the market has long-term downsides to user choice. Windows, IE, and now Chrome.
The solution to that is to stop the abuse, not remove user choice.
Until regulators stop being asleep at the wheel, “we can’t lock iOS users out of everything” likely keeps Safari alive.