Japan's final report into mobile ecosystems is in. "Mandatory use of WebKit impedes fair and equitable competition between Safari and third-party browsers … Hindering the development of web apps …adversely affecting the
competitive environment in entire mobile ecosystem." https://www.kantei.go.jp/jp/singi/digitalmarket/pdf_e/documents_230616.pdf
"Safari or WebKit has many unavailable features and poor performance", "On iOS, some features are available only for Safari, and are/were not available for 3rd party browsers", "Safari lags behind web app support". (p 25)
"Mandatory use of WebKit impedes fair and equitable competition between Safari and third-party browsers … the opportunity to select other browsers with excellent
security, etc. is deprived. Users lose the choice of browsers that use browser engines other than WebKit, and are exposed to security risks." (p 26)
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