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Downside: 1. Do you really know what your apps are doing? You can't compile from source. 2. You may only use apps Apple approves. So no Firefox for you.
by greenhouse_gas 8y ago
Downside: 1. Do you really know what your apps are doing? You can't compile from source.
2. You may only use apps Apple approves. So no Firefox for you.
- incadenza 8y agoPoint taken, but Firefox is on iOS FWIW.
- catach 8y agoiOS Firefox is a reskinned WebKit, unfortunately. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_for_iOS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_for_iOS
- incadenza 8y agoAh, got it, that's unfortunate. I remember some time ago, Mozilla said that they wouldn't put a browser on iOS unless it could use Gecko. When I saw the app I assumed that the restrictions had changed.
- Moru 8y agoThis is exactly what we mean when we say closed garden and extortion. If firefox wants to exist on the platform, they have to play by apple rules. Apple are just fine without firefox so they don't care.
- josteink 8y agoMozilla has done the best they can, given the restrictions imposed on them by Apple. This effectively means that Firefox on iOS has no support for extensions or addons like on Android... Because Apple and Safari doesn't allow that. It's definitely not what people have come to expect from Firefox over the years, but at least I get to seamlessly sync my bookmarks, history and passwords with my desktop browser of choice.
- maccard 8y agoso you know what all the google play services are doing on your phone? You can compile apps from source and put them on your own phone, you just cant distribute your own compiled apps without a paid developer account.
- Aissen 8y agoI think you didn't read the article. People are talking of devices without Play Services or Play Store.
- solarkraft 8y agoI can opt out of using Play services.