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I don't understand how people are discounting Safari as unused when probably about half of all web traffic comes from iphone/iPad these days, which only allows

by gerad 9y ago

I don't understand how people are discounting Safari as unused when probably about half of all web traffic comes from iphone/iPad these days, which only allows the WebKit rendering engine.

chimeracoder 9y ago
> I don't understand how people are discounting Safari as unused when probably about half of all web traffic comes from iphone/iPad these days, which only allows the WebKit rendering engine. This is referring specifically to desktop Safari. Spotify already has an iOS app.
- ricardobeat 9y ago
  They also have a desktop app, so same reasoning applies.
  - durango 9y ago
    Not really, mobile users tend to use apps more so than a browser for "things." Whereas a desktop user is the complete opposite and would most likely favor just opening a tab versus downloading an entire app.
  - ad133 9y ago
    From what I gather, it's not the same case here. Safari is now unsupported because Spotify deprecated their Flash website in favour of HTML5 + Widevine. Safari doesn't support Widevine, so can't use the new player. However, Safari on iOS never supported Flash so the old version of the Spotify player wouldn't have worked either.
kuschku 9y ago
> I don't understand how people are discounting Safari as unused when probably about half of all web traffic comes from iphone/iPad these days, which only allows the WebKit rendering engine. In the US. In the EU, iOS has a marketshare between 15 and 20% at best, which is closer to Windows Phone’s best times than to any other mobile OS.
- chrismeller 9y ago
  Closer to 30%, but still significantly less than the US [1]. If you filter out a lot of Eastern Europe and focus on the wealthier Western countries that are more akin to the US you're back in the near 50% range. 1: http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/europe http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/europe
  - kuschku 9y ago
    Wow, these stats don’t match sale statistics and statistics of carriers at all. Those show iOS as below 15% in Germany.
  - diminish 9y ago
    just to clarify stats counter offer Mobile browsing market share http://gs.statcounter.com/faq#methodology http://gs.statcounter.com/faq#methodology . Actual device sales and install stats are different.

by gerad 9y ago

I don't understand how people are discounting Safari as unused when probably about half of all web traffic comes from iphone/iPad these days, which only allows the WebKit rendering engine.

chimeracoder 9y ago

> I don't understand how people are discounting Safari as unused when probably about half of all web traffic comes from iphone/iPad these days, which only allows the WebKit rendering engine. This is referring specifically to desktop Safari. Spotify already has an iOS app.

ricardobeat 9y ago
They also have a desktop app, so same reasoning applies.
- durango 9y ago
  Not really, mobile users tend to use apps more so than a browser for "things." Whereas a desktop user is the complete opposite and would most likely favor just opening a tab versus downloading an entire app.
- ad133 9y ago
  From what I gather, it's not the same case here. Safari is now unsupported because Spotify deprecated their Flash website in favour of HTML5 + Widevine. Safari doesn't support Widevine, so can't use the new player. However, Safari on iOS never supported Flash so the old version of the Spotify player wouldn't have worked either.

kuschku 9y ago

> I don't understand how people are discounting Safari as unused when probably about half of all web traffic comes from iphone/iPad these days, which only allows the WebKit rendering engine. In the US. In the EU, iOS has a marketshare between 15 and 20% at best, which is closer to Windows Phone’s best times than to any other mobile OS.

chrismeller 9y ago
Closer to 30%, but still significantly less than the US [1]. If you filter out a lot of Eastern Europe and focus on the wealthier Western countries that are more akin to the US you're back in the near 50% range. 1: http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/europe http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/europe
- kuschku 9y ago
  Wow, these stats don’t match sale statistics and statistics of carriers at all. Those show iOS as below 15% in Germany.
- diminish 9y ago
  just to clarify stats counter offer Mobile browsing market share http://gs.statcounter.com/faq#methodology http://gs.statcounter.com/faq#methodology . Actual device sales and install stats are different.