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Don't all users understand this before giving Apple money?

No sympathy here. Make people use web apps instead of feeding the beast.

Good luck with web apps on iOS. Safari is a shitshow with more serious bugs than anything else I know of. You can report bugs, and maybe someone working on WebKit will look at it in 5 years, and maybe it will be fixed in 10 years. And then probably appear again in the next iOS version.

Either Apple is incompetent, or they're making/keeping it bad on purpose.

Can't you install chrome?

All browsers on ios use the safari engine. Only thing chrome can do is sync your bookmarks.

I think they go a bit more advanced than that - IIRC they use their own networking stack.

But yeah the rendering / JS interpreter is all Safari.

All browsers on iOS use a Safari webview. iOS does not allow the installation of competing browser engines. So, no. It may be called chrome, it may look like chrome, but it is Safari, with all the limitations that implies (and a few extra limitations as a webview, just for good measure).

Apple does this on purpose to push people to use native apps, and then they lock down access to a market of 1 billion people to their whim of the day.

Edit: another poster pulled the trigger at the same time as me, will leave my comment for good measure.

And even Microsoft let people install browsers that didn't use IE as a base.

Basic feature support is missing too. Every native app can do push notifications and so can every other browser, yet Apple still haven't added support for it in Safari.

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