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> Browse didn't work on iPhone for many years

The web API always allowed you to choose photos from your camera roll.

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No, it did not, not until iOS 6 (!!)

And Steve Jobs ensured that Flash uploaders popular at the time could never work on the iPhone, either.

Example: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/4104/is-it-possibl...

Ironically, Microsoft had tried to kill the web off with Internet Explorer just a few years before, but no one noticed what Apple was doing, because they did it so well... they got 400,000 and then a million apps in their app store, completely bypassing the web altogether.

And as evidenced by your comment on this very technical forum, even now, people still might not have noticed what Apple was doing.

You’re really complaining about something that was fixed over a decade ago?

What next, complaining about 8.3 character filenames on Windows 3.1?

The point is that it was broken on purpose until they finally had to cave to pressure because it was such a pain in the butt. Being able to choose a picture to upload from a phone wasn’t new or hi-tech, and could be done just fine on feature phones where the number pad was 3x the size of the screen and WAP meant wireless application protocol instead of the new thing.

Yes and we all know how Apple “caves in to pressure” and knew they were going to lose sells to Android if they didn’t allow photo uploads from the browser

my beef with 8.3 was that THEY WERE ALL UPPERCASE

when ASCII went from 6 bits to 7, they should have redefined 0x41-0x5A to lowercase. the 70s and 80s would have been so much nicer.

This is literally something from 10+ years ago.

IME WebSockets work fine on Firefox but not on Safari, at least not naively

Yes. One person said "feature X always existed" and the reply was "not until iOS 6", which is corroborated by their link.

Based on what people are saying in that link, iOS existed for something like 6 years before it got working web page picture uploads. Meaning the person saying the feature has always existed was incorrect.

And iOS 3 introduced the App Store? And iOS 2 introduced copy paste? This doesn’t seem like much of a delay.

In the grand scheme of things. In a world billions of years old? 3 years isn't much of a delay. And those features, with the small "delay", still weren't "always" available - which was the claim ("the api always had those features").

>Microsoft had tried to kill the web off with Internet Explorer

Why would they need that?

They wanted their own proprietary network they controlled (MSN). They also wanted people to develop Windows apps with their technologies, not things that worked everywhere.

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