I don't see how we could have more vulnerability, on a massive scale, than to have two companies which pre-install both the OS and the browser, on their own hardware in the case of Apple, for 95% of the planet.
Microsoft was sued by the USDOJ in 1998 precisely for this, that it was leveraging the pre-installation of Windows to force Internet Explorer to be the default browser for PC consumers. That that was bad for both security and for the web seems pretty obvious in retrospect, when you think about the trajectory of IE.
Apple's insistent blocking of non-webkit web engines, including V8, on its own hardware/iOS is an even more egregious and dangerous phenomenon.
Browser security and browsers themselves would be vastly improved if they weren't a monopoly of the two mobile OS makers.
Microsoft was sued by the USDOJ in 1998 precisely for this, that it was leveraging the pre-installation of Windows to force Internet Explorer to be the default browser for PC consumers. That that was bad for both security and for the web seems pretty obvious in retrospect, when you think about the trajectory of IE.
Apple's insistent blocking of non-webkit web engines, including V8, on its own hardware/iOS is an even more egregious and dangerous phenomenon.
Browser security and browsers themselves would be vastly improved if they weren't a monopoly of the two mobile OS makers.