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Apple has always delivered an excellent web browsing experience on all of its general purpose computing devices. Probably the top selling point of the original
by othermaciej 16y ago
Apple has always delivered an excellent web browsing experience on all of its general purpose computing devices. Probably the top selling point of the original iPhone, before the app store, was "browsing that doesn't suck".
And incidentally Android's browser technology is largely based on WebKit, created by Apple.
It simply does not compute to say that Google had to save mobile browsing from Apple.
- kenjackson 16y agoFrom all appearances Apple never acted on these grumblings. And they started after the introduction of native apps. As I point out we don't really know how it would have played out with no Android. I do think that if talk to Google they do believe that over time the app store experience would be the one pushed by Apple and the web deemphasized to the extent they could. Remember Android is all cost center for Google. The only real benefit they derive from it is keeping people on the web. Which is one reason why the Android app store will not be as strong as Apples.