>I reject your assertion because it promulgates the lie of "browser choice".

The only lie being told in all of this is the one Apple tells when you install Firefox on an iOS device. It's not Firefox you're installing, it's Safari. Every browser on iOS is Safari - you have no choice at all.

>The health of the web as an open platform is defined by browser diversity, not browser choice.

Then put your money where your mouth is. If Safari can compete then let other browser engines on iOS. If it can't then it deserves to die. Artificially inflating it by forcing on iOS isn't the utopia you think it is.

>A bit of forced diversity is wildly preferable over another collapse towards monoculture.

Apple iOS is a monocoulture - every browser is Safari whether you want it or not.

There's no argument you can make to escape the fact that Apple is helping nobody but Apple by forcing Safari on iOS.

> The health of the web as an open platform is defined by browser diversity, not browser choice.

Says who? I certainly don't agree with that statement, the "web as an open platform" was unrecognizable when proprietary clients were the norm.

But there is no browser diversity on mobile. I'd like to use Firefox on iOS.