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If Apple has like 4% of the OS market and seems to be abandoning the desktop, why do we really care what Apple thinks?
by intrasight 10y ago
If Apple has like 4% of the OS market and seems to be abandoning the desktop, why do we really care what Apple thinks?
- MBCook 10y agoBecause of the fact they helped usher in the modern web with WebKit and they're the ones in charge of this very popular thing called iOS?
- intrasight 10y agoEverything I'm reading in this thread pertains to Mac OS, so I'm sticking with my assertion.
- MBCook 10y agoYou mean people complaining about the lack of Vulcan on OS X? I mean if we're only paying attention to desktops than this whole discussion is moot. Safari on the desktop has a pathetically small market share, Chrome and various versions of IE easily dominat it. There's no reason to think that even if we ended up with the equivalent of WebMetal that would seriously boost desktop Safari's market share. iOS, especially given the rules around alternate browsers, is the reason this discussion is important at all. Those hundreds of millions of devices or where this may matter.
- intrasight 10y agoOn iOS, Apple is going to do it's own thing and that's that.
- robert_foss 10y agoWebKit came from the Linux Open Source landscape. It was created withing KDE. Re: iOS being popular; You're in a bubble, the iOS market share as of 2016Q3 is 12.5%.
- MBCook 10y agoWebKit did start with KHTML as a base, but it was Apple (and later Google) who brought it to prominence. When it was only KHTML it was a bit player. As for market share, that's percent of devices sold. By web browsing it's about 25%, and that doesn't include the possibly outsized influence it has due to being so much more common at the top of the market.