Safari is the IE10 of today. Every single feature we build out, we need to test it thoroughly on Safari because stuff that works in FF/Chromium just doesn't work the same in Safari. A sizeable chunk of our frontend codebase has a bunch of workarounds specifically for Safari because of its quirks.
> Their core strategy has always been to keep cost low...
You realize this is Apple we're talking about right, the company with the most outrageous pricing strategies?