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agust | 1 year ago

And what are they suggesting to improve the proposal? Apple, which makes $20B a year with Safari, surely has enough resources to make a counter-proposal?

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L3viathan|1 year ago

The counter-proposal is: don't do it. This comment by the Apple guy sums it up well IMHO:

> Colleagues and I have discussed this and don't see a way to grant write access to the end user's local file system in a way that safeguards the end user's interests.

agust|1 year ago

So they can make it to work for platform-specific apps that they tax 30%, but can't make it to work for interoperable web apps which they can't tax. How convenient.