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eriknstr on Jan 25, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Safari 10.1

>Google chose to fork Webkit to create Blink

Wasn't this because the amount of work required to co-operate with the WebKit project made it not worth it for Google?

r00fus on Jan 25, 2017 [–]

I find it more likely that Apple and Google's views on key topics (e.g. privacy/advertising) were diametrically opposed (not to mention Android vs iOS).

Note: Chrome exists for many OSs - Safari is only found on Apple ones.

iampims on Jan 25, 2017 | [–]

They had Safari for windows at some point…

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