On Tue, 30 Jun 2020 09:08:16 +1200, Peter Reutemann quoted:
'Apple said last week that it declined to implement 16 new web technologies (Web APIs) in Safari because they posed a threat to user privacy by opening new avenues for user fingerprinting.'
Of course, its competitors see things differently <https://www.theregister.com/2020/06/29/apple_web_developers/>: [Alex Russell, senior staff software engineer at Google] points out that Apple supports other APIs that can be abused, such as those related to orientation/acceleration, geolocation, camera access, GPU accelerated graphics, gamepad API, and file and directory upload. Or as Ben Thompson, tech analyst for Stratechery, put it in a blog post on Monday, "Making the web less useful makes apps more useful, from which Apple can take its share; similarly, it is notable that Apple is expanding its own app install product even as it is kneecapping the industry’s."