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Apple declined to implement 16 Web APIs in Safari due to privacy concerns

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428 points coronadisaster | 2 comments | 29 Jun 20 10:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.42s | source
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manishsharan ◴[29 Jun 20 11:47 UTC] No.23676660[source]▶
Good. Those APIs were awful. If your website needs to know the battery status or other such information , you need to be writing an app which I will never download.
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WrtCdEvrydy ◴[29 Jun 20 12:47 UTC] No.23677073[source]▶
It's a choice between walled garden browser or walled garden market. The anti-trust lawsuit will probably be interesting.
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1. bilal4hmed ◴[29 Jun 20 12:56 UTC] No.23677126[source]▶
I dont think you are going to see Apple get in to any anti trust. What you will see is Google get broken up, with Apple, Tencent, Huawei, Microsoft etc swooping in and buying those pieces up.

You need a strong single Apple so that we can have our singular place to buy smartphones.

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2. WrtCdEvrydy ◴[29 Jun 20 12:58 UTC] No.23677142[source]▶
Bundling of the browser to the platform and making other browsers non-viable is probably covered under the previous Microsoft case law.