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What are you on about? This is super confusing to me. Mozilla does a lot of great work. It's insanely hard to make and develop a web browser... Are you aware of that? Apple probably spends a large fraction of the amount Mozilla does and yet safari benefits more from open source than Mozilla and is still one of the biggest shit piles on the planet.
It is worth mentioning that the WebKit port for GTK does not support WebRTC and that it is not supported at all by Apple. It's an effort by Igalia, one person from Red Hat and volunteers.
There's also essentially no WebKit browser for windows. WebKit is often slow at adopting new web technologies as well.
All that to say - WebKit is not the example of a success outside of helping big corporations to make their own big proprietary browsers.
All I know is that as a frontend Dev, features in safari are about 5-10 years late to the party. the world's first trillion dollar company is years behind a non profit..
This is something I deal with daily. Safari has awful support for new-ish features. Combine that with a requirement to support a couple versions back like my company does and you're basically limited to what the web was 10 years ago. Safari is the new IE.
From a feature perspective, yes. But with the dominance of Google's Chrome and them pushing awful web API's I'd say the title of "the new IE" goes to Chrome.
Google's business practices are God awful, yes. Apple's are too, in a different way. In the end, Google's probably are worse but from a technology standpoint at least they are not seeking to ignore web standards. They're trying to create them. In the case of the authentication API it's a shit ass standard, but that's not what they have done historically. Google has mostly embraced and helped push standards through which made the web better. Apple has actively despised and resisted standards.
But I'm not sure why we are comparing these two evil tech companies. Firefox and other browser makers have also supported modern web standards while apple hates the idea of them. The result is a shitty ass browser that behaves like 7 years old Firefox or something. That was my only point.
This explains why you don't think safari is that bad. Lol, you don't test in it. It's fucking bad. Every time I think I'm doing some safe that safari can't botch and don't test for a few days in safari, I'm shown what a foolish thought that is. The types of sites I work on have some less common features admittedly, but every other browser, even silk browser on ancient Kindle devices, works flawlessly most times while safari has a problem with SO much. Even back when we supported IE 11 (trident) the weird issues were worse on safari.
Apple's big selling point has never been their software.
What has it been then? I think hundreds of millions of people would say their software "just works" and that's why they love it.
Hardware and the fact that their products became bourgie status symbols. Their aesthetic game is on point and UI is fairly polished, but their software can be super limited in annoying ways.
Agreed, but I think the general population thinks that their products are great in general. They're not too concerned about hardware vs software. "It just works"