I’m confused. How does an open-sourced browser engine tell devs that they’re not allowed to support extensions? Unless I’m missing something, Orion is Webkit and offers extensions.
Same with bug fixes and such. The Webkit page has directions for the public to contribute bugfixes. Is this something where that’s not how it works in practice?
Apple makes third-party apps editor’s choices in the app store and gives them Apple design awards even when they compete against the apps they include with their OSs.
Apparently Apple believes that doing both—including a suite of its own apps and utilities at no extra charge and encouraging a vibrant ecosystem of third-party alternatives in those categories for users who want more capabilities, different features, or simply different approaches (e.g., markdown vs. rich text in notes apps)—makes its platforms more compelling to more people, which helps them sell more devices, capture more market share, and make more money.
I’m curious if you can still get to iCloud via a web browser? That back door was often left open by corporate IT.
EDIT TO ADD: Maybe this is something you would be reluctant to talk about? Just blink twice if yes. 
Strongbox seems to support all those use cases
Yes - but not WebKit extensions. It has to hack support for Chrome and Firefox extensions. Same with SigmaOS.
See also: iOS. No other browsers are allowed extensions, apart from Safari. So Apple can, for instance, coast on Noir making a website dark mode-ener, while every other browser has to hard-code it themselves.
Not that Apple’s imposition of the walled garden and arbitrary restrictions on other developers is self-serving. It’s all about protecting users from the security nightmare they face on…um…the Mac.
Let’s assume I can. Does that let me access Safari bookmarks, icloud keychain (passwords), etc ? I haven’t used icloud.com for a minute, but I don’t remember seeing those things there. o/c passwords wouldn’t really help much in my case , as I store a lot more than that in 1Password.
iCloud access access via the web at work let me easily share files from my personal Apple devices, which was all I wanted, and which was all I was suggesting might be valuable to you.
I wish Apple would lock arms with windows on certain features in terms of cross platform compatibility. There are a lot of us with Windows Work computers that would appreciate greater phone interoperability. Maybe even paywall Windows features behind iCloud payment. At the very least make iCloud.com better.
I don’t know all of Apple motivations for their “walled garden”, but AFAIK all of Apple’s devices share some code, and vulnerabilities, with the Mac.
That can be seen when you click through the links for the patches released on 13-May-24
Sure, they share a lot of the same code base, but on a Mac the walled garden has gates you can open.
All “gates” can be opened.
Apple refused to pay bounty to Kaspersky for uncovering iPhone vulnerability
But not by average users of iOS and iPadOS the way you can flick a switch in the macOS settings and install apps from outside the App Store.
Kapersky’s got bigger problems …
I’m actually surprised that it has taken this long.