On: How Qualcomm shook down the cell phone industry for almost 20 years

[awad]

You can use Chrome on iOS.

[tracker1 → awad]

Chrome on iOS still uses Safari's renderer and JS engine.

[dwaite → tracker1]

My understanding is that Google is allowed to use their own renderer and their own Javascript engine - as long as it doesn't do JIT compilation. The ability to mark pages or files as executable is a platform security model thing.

Chrome uses WebKit because Google would rather use a WebKit/JSC engine than a slow Blink/V8 engine - especially since Blink is a WebKit fork.

[tracker1 → dwaite]

If the alternative is something so slow that nobody would actually use it, does the why really matter that much in practice?