Some folks still offer tortured arguments for why Apple is on the side of the angels, but they're transparently nonsense:
https://infrequently.org/2022/06/apple-is-not-defending-browser-engine-choice/
Apple, in 2023, keeps it boot on the neck of the web because it saw what the web did to Windows and wants anything but that for iOS. An open, interoperable meta-platform would reduce Apple's power to tax, and we just can't have that, now can we?
/cc @chriscoyier @tomayac
This brings us to Google.
Why in the world has Google been more than complicit in nerfing the web's chances on mobile?
To answer this you need to grok that Google, like Apple and every other big company, is an agglomeration of small companies that happen to send their revenues to the same place, but probably don't have any love for each other.
And Android comes from an acquisition: Danger.
/cc @chriscoyier @tomayac