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The welcome resurgence of Firefox makes Apple’s ban on third party browser engines on iOS even less justifiable. This is about control, not security.
by cageface 9y ago
The welcome resurgence of Firefox makes Apple’s ban on third party browser engines on iOS even less justifiable. This is about control, not security.
- ac2u 9y agoIt does give them enviable control, but the security is a valid point. A browser engine has a wide surface area for attack vectors as it features multiple parsers and a JS engine.
- cageface 9y agoIt's taken from the same playbook as their refusal to support open video codecs in WebRTC. Apple is the new IBM, using money and market share to keep out challengers. If Steve Jobs were getting started today we'd have a picture of him standing in front of the Apple logo giving it the finger.
- Sylos 9y agoRight, but does a monoculture actually help that in any way? It's not like Apple is always at the forefront of innovation with WebKit.
- brogrammernot 9y agoHonestly, I don’t really care to see any other browsers on iOS. Safari works perfectly fine and I’d rather download an app than use a mobile experience of a website. Most companies suck at mobile web apps whereas the native experience is much better.
- muddi900 9y agoSafari has 2 basic problems; - The Interface is obtuse and inefficient in practice. - All major updates only happen once a year for so that the OS announcement can have more bullet points Which, I guess is the problem with iOS as a whole. Marketing is the primary driver of all innovation on that platform and it works for them. Except the iPad.
- erikpukinskis 9y agoIf you’re happy with the Safari rendering engine, there’s nothing to stop you building a competing browser with a different UI. That’s what Firefox and Chrome on iOS are.