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I bought an iPad about two years ago, after hearing years of hype about the quality of Apple products. I use it mostly for web browsing, and the thing that sho

by 13of40 11y ago

I bought an iPad about two years ago, after hearing years of hype about the quality of Apple products. I use it mostly for web browsing, and the thing that shocks me the most about it is how many mainstream sites simply don't work right in the browser. (By "browser" I mean Safari or Chrome - they seem to have the same issues.) Sites like EBay, Google News, Google Books, and SlashDot all have glitches that either make them unusable or seriously frustrating to use. News sites take forever to load and tend to crash the browser after a few minutes of use. If you're a first-time buyer and you're considering getting an iPad, slap yourself, take a minute to breathe, and go look at some Android tablets instead.

lectrick 11y ago
EDIT: I was wrong. I assumed Chrome iOS and Chrome Android used the same rendering engine. I'm rather shocked that they don't, actually.
- monkmartinez 11y ago
  Are you grepping for Android and casting "fanboy"?
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- vezycash 11y ago
  He said the same thing you're saying. >>(By "browser" I mean Safari or Chrome - they seem to have the same issues.) Calm down
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    - lorenzhs 11y ago
      I can only offer one data point, but I've managed to crash Chrome for iOS a lot (good example: it doesn't seem to like websockets much, see https://github.com/glowing-bear/glowing-bear/issues/597 https://github.com/glowing-bear/glowing-bear/issues/597). I don't recall ever crashing Chrome for Android even though it's the default browser on my phone.
- brewdad 11y ago
  Unless Apple has backtracked recently, it's not "the same damn rendering engine" in iOS. Apple requires all browsers to use their version of WebKit. Chrome moved to Blink years ago.
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