No, I meant 100% since the limitations you support affect literally everyone your misleading stats notwithstanding
> That’s why iPhone today is still the #1 mobile phone with highest loyalty and consumer satisfaction scores for over a decade.
That's just another thing you've made up
> You don’t become an industry changing leader and stay #1 by “crippling 100% of users”. It’s just what you think is crippling, others don’t care about.
That's a rather simplistic view of the real world where leadership and customer satisfaction must depend on the single factor you're currently arguing about. In reality you could easily be a leader across a bunch of areas and then totally fail in others with the overall balance still being in your favor
Yes, it affects 100% of iPhone users, because... they're an iPhone user.
But 99.9% don't care about running non WebKit browser, so it doesn't cripple 100% of users because they are not affected by this.
Same as having no Flash support today doesn't cripple 100% of iPhone users, because they don't care about it.
Go and ask your friends/parents/family/grandparents if they're crippled by not being able to run a non WebKit browser and listen to their answers.
I'm not making up numbers, I'm generalising it.
There's 1.5 billion iPhone users in the world, and there's ~26 million developers in world, that's less than 2% of 1.5 billion. Only a set of ~26 million developers have iPhones, even smaller set know the word WebKit, and even smaller set of those that know what WebKit means even care that their iPhone cannot run a non WebKit browser.
So yes, I can generalise and say that 0.01% of iPhone users care about non WebKit browsers. I can make it 0.1%, 1% or even 2%, it doesn't change the point - a minority of techies who like to tinker with their gadgets (including some business owners who want to increase their revenue) want to force their needs on 99% of people by exposing over a billion people to new security and privacy threats and attack vectors.
All while for the last 15 years they were happily piggy backing in the walled garden that was designed this way since day 1 and playing key role in Apple's success building a marketplace of 1.5 billion people that was unimaginable in 2008. And then suddenly 15/30% became too much, please change the terms we were playing along for 15 years, open up the iPhone!!
