What's the point of doing a browser at all then? Or email? Or a new device? Or having a company in the first place? Or inventing anything?
How can you tell a tech company is dead and done for? It's when they stop pushing the boundaries, when they stop serving their users, when they stop inventing, when they stop competing. Because, they think they can afford it, famous last words of countless once mighty giants.
That's more than a bit of a stretch. More like, Apple cares about the security of their sandbox and having exclusive control over the sale of software on their platform, and doesn't see the need to include a feature that a) practically guarantees security vulnerabilities, b) weakens their control over content for iOS, and c) users don't really care about at the moment.
Jailbreakers have exploited vulnerabilities in FreeType of all things, but who cares, let's just give them more ammunition! I'm sure it will work out fine.
Apple: Dead and done for because they made a sane decision. You heard it here first, folks.
