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Banning alternative browsers in particular was a huge lead weight around open source on mobile.



What's banned is marking a data page as executable (which happens to be required if you want to build a competitive javascript engine).

The practical upshot of this is that nobody has bothered porting a browser engine to iOS, since it's javascript performance would be unacceptably slow.




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