> had all sorts of issues with Safari

Tangential rant, but this appears to be intentional. As far as I can tell, Apple is intentionally lagging behind supporting various web technologies, to make the web as unattractive as possible (within their ecosystem), and by extension, to make native app development as attractive as possible, so they can take a cut of the profits.

If their reasoning is correct, then they would actually lose money by not investing into their own browser engine, which is somewhat amusing, because the worse of a job they do, the more money they make.

(I find this idea particularly painful in the context of "we at Apple love web technology so much, we're going to use our love of web as our main excuse for killing Flash"...)