There have been other arguments made too, including much speculation about why Safari might be killing the web - is this motivated by protecting Apple's app store profits? I'm going to ignore those suggestions entirely, and stick to concrete problems.
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We'll dig into each of these points in more detail in a second, and then we'll talk about what Safari could do instead.
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That is worth further discussion, because it's widespread, and wrong. I don't want to rehash the basics of that, but I have seen some interesting rebuttals, most commonly: Safari is actually protecting the web, by resisting adding unnecessary and experimental features that create security/privacy/bloat problems.
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There's been a lot of discussion recently about how "Safari is the new IE" ( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5).