Comment by carlosjobim

Comment by carlosjobim a day ago

9 replies

> Firstly, a lot of web developers have stopped caring about the standards process. Whatever functionality Google adds is their definition of “the web”.

Businesses who hire such web developers will lose huge amounts of sales, since 90% of visitors are on mobile and half of those are on Safari.

JimDabell a day ago

How do you think that’s going to play out once Apple are legally barred from mandating WebKit on iOS?

  • pjmlp a day ago

    Web will finally become ChromeOS, takeover goal achieved.

    • paulryanrogers a day ago

      Or other engines gain a foothold and web devs have to go back to standards.

      • JimDabell a day ago

        Which other engines?

        Why would they gain a foothold on iOS when they haven’t on desktop?

  • carlosjobim a day ago

    I think most people will continue using the default Safari browser.

    • internet2000 a day ago

      That’s not how it played out on desktop and it isn’t how it will play out on mobile.

      • immibis 20 hours ago

        I use Chrome on Android because it's the default browser and I'm lazy, not because I actually like it. When a phone forces me to choose one I'm not very likely to choose Chrome. It's going to be the same for iOS users.