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JimDabelltoday at 4:57 PM0 repliesview on HN

> Apple is on the W3C board that gets to decide which APIs become standards. They are preventing these APIs from becoming standards.

They are not. You have this almost entirely backwards. To become a standard, you only need two independent interoperable implementations. This means Apple cannot block something from becoming a standard. The only thing Google needs to do is convince anybody else to implement their proposals. So far they have managed to convince precisely zero other rendering engines to do so.

> I'll also point out that Opera, Edge, Samsung and others did implement the Web Bluetooth API, so you are wrong about your assertion that they "couldn't convince any other rendering engine to implement them".

All of these are Chromium / Blink users, not independent implementations.