The thing is, and I believe Gruber himself has pointed this out regarding Microsoft's past transgressions, you don't need a Simpsons style committee of evil for this stuff to happen. You just need a normal corporation filled with employees smart enough to know what's in the financial interests of their employer, and that sticking to those interests aids their own career progression.
Bugs and difficult to solve issues arise in all sorts of code. Just by prioritising what you work on and fix you can hose your competitors both within or outside your ecosystem. In this case, extra speed for Mobile Safari was clearly more important to Apple than extra speed for mobile apps that compete with their native apps.
Bugs and difficult to solve issues arise in all sorts of code. Just by prioritising what you work on and fix you can hose your competitors both within or outside your ecosystem. In this case, extra speed for Mobile Safari was clearly more important to Apple than extra speed for mobile apps that compete with their native apps.