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So it's not about what's best for the user but what's best for Apple? I wouldn't call that "understandable". All this is doing is contributing to webkit monocul
by cageface 7y ago
So it's not about what's best for the user but what's best for Apple? I wouldn't call that "understandable". All this is doing is contributing to webkit monoculture.
- Spivak 7y agoThere's some irony that Apple forcing the use of Safari on iOS is creating a monoculture when, were the restriction lifted, everyone would be using Chrome.
- cageface 7y agoIf so it would be because users chose it and it would also help keep Firefox in the game which important to the long term health of the web.
- zimpenfish 7y ago> everyone would be using Chrome. I'd be amazed if there were more than a tiny fraction of iOS/iPadOS users (of which there are hundreds of millions) who weren't perfectly ok with Mobile Safari for their everyday usage. [I'm probably the "target market" for Chrome (backend, occasionally frontend developer) and there's no way I'd have it on my phone. I only suffer the GMail app because they've made IMAP usage of gmail unreliable.]
- kitsunesoba 7y agoIt doesn’t matter what users choose, devs would badger users into using Chrome for their own convenience. It’d be the return of the “viewed best in” badges from the late 90s and early 00s.
- TheKarateKid 7y agoRemember, making everything a web app is Google's agenda because they benefit most from it.
- NightlyDev 7y agoRemember, harming webapps is Apple's agenda because only they benefit from it. On the other hand, the web is mostly open for all, so most people benefit from it, not just Google.