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Because there is at least a good Chrome browser in every platform.

Aside from iOS, you mean?

Actually, the non-Chrome browsers on every platform are good enough and Chrome doesn't stand out. That's why the author missed this extremely obvious extra jab at apple.

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There is a "good Chrome browser" on iOS. It syncs your passwords and bookmarks and works as intended. The fact that it's not sharing rendering technology with the other Chrome browsers doesn't matter at all to end users, and matters very little to developers.

matters very little to developers.

This was a joke, right? It's doing more to hold back usage of new web standards than pretty much anything out there.

Developers have to support safari on iOS.

Chrome's implementation on iOS doesn't help development, but it doesn't appreciably hinder development either.

What's wrong with the chrome browser on iOS? I've never had a problem with it.

simply that there is no real chrome for IOS, or firefox for that matter. They both are shells around webkit (i.e Safari).

Apple does not allow browsers in the app store if they don't use their own rendering engine.

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