I wish it were a strawman argument.
Chrome is ~80% market share of browsers. Google search is dominant, and pushes Chrome heavily. Google's own apps and platforms push Chrome, and on mobile they ignore user choice and offer to open links in Chrome by default. Google is known to have repeatedly sabotaged Firefox [1]
Google fully dominates web standards committees. Google already barrells through with their proposals with complete and utter disregard to input or objections from other browser implementers.
The web is already given over to Google.
More comments and discussions from other people: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31899606, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31897396, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31899214
Again, this is irrelevant. Regulation should be left to government and not to private companies who want to protect their turf of native app development by taking away consumer choice. Consumer choice of browser on a marketplace is the argument here. Google is already facing multi-billion dollar fines for anti-trust in the EU.
Why can't Apple make an exception for Firefox and non-Chrome browsers ? Disallow Google Chrome, but allow the use of OSS browsers (with their native rendering engines).
Hint: They will not, because they are not afraid of Chrome as much as much as they are afraid that their complete stranglehold over native app development gets threatened.
> Why can't Apple make an exception for Firefox and non-Chrome browsers ?
How do you imagine such a ban? And how much worse Apple will look in this scenario?