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No, they weren't! They just wanted to force all major websites to create an iOS app as well. Now that there are 750.000+ apps in the App Store, they can give web a long-overdue break.

They still don't give websites access to camera feed (read or frontal), among other things, so you can't use a website to make a video conference.

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...given that Mobile Safari has been around longer than the app store I'm not sure that's strictly true. And let's be honest, Android support for direct camera access through getUserMedia is pretty ropey at best. Neither platform is at a state where it's usable by the masses.

Yeah, the shipped the best and most performant mobile browser for years, but omitted one small feature that no-one has implemented well for nefarious purposes.

What OS/DE does not have a toolkit just for creating File Open dialogs?

Android didn't have it at first too. What other mobile OS matters?

Android implemented it years ago. My point was simply that "one small feature that no-one has implemented well" is pretty much revisionist nonsense.

>They still don't give websites access to camera feed (read or frontal), among other things, so you can't use a website to make a video conference.

And they will NOT do it until the battery, CPU power et al are there to support it running on the browser in the way a random website wants to handle it.

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