> Google has no respect for [iOS Safari]. It’s a deliberate effort by Google to break the open web.
I could make the same argument that Apple cripples iOS Safari's implementations of emerging standards that aim to bring the web experience closer to a "native feel" to keep its app store revenue churning:
...but really it's a lot more likely that getting _all_ things right on _all_ platforms is the really, really hard thing about the web, for browser vendors and web developers alike.
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence (or in this case, sheer overwhelming difficulty).
I could make the same argument that Apple cripples iOS Safari's implementations of emerging standards that aim to bring the web experience closer to a "native feel" to keep its app store revenue churning:
http://caniuse.com/#feat=stream
...but really it's a lot more likely that getting _all_ things right on _all_ platforms is the really, really hard thing about the web, for browser vendors and web developers alike.
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence (or in this case, sheer overwhelming difficulty).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor