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How does Chrome or Firefox running on iOS, using WKWebView for its backend rather than their own rendering engines, in any way turn the iPhone into a "bare platform"? How would users even know or care that these 3rd party browsers are not using their own rendering engine?

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Because all websites with cool features like working offline don't have those features on the iPhone.

Or at least, I hope this will soon be the case. Sadly, it not working on the iPhone will probably mean it's often not worth investing into at all.

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