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It boggles my mind that a company makes a fairly innocuous decision (which you would expect consumers to punish them for) like requiring all web views to use th
by lolsal 6y ago
It boggles my mind that a company makes a fairly innocuous decision (which you would expect consumers to punish them for) like requiring all web views to use the same renderer as Safari, and there are people like you rushing to have the government jump in and regulate "the kind of rendering for web pages that a private company allows on their devices". Seems like total insanity to me and I don't understand it.
- Razengan 6y ago> Seems like total insanity to me and I don't understand it. They want to tear down Apple's defenses so they can feast unhindered upon the billions of users as they are rendered helpless. Honestly, any entity that constantly cries foul about the high bars set up by Apple, makes me very wary of any product from that entity.
- rangoon626 6y agoApple does not own the device though. If they own the device, then I want my 1k back.
- lolsal 6y agoBuyer beware? Were you under the impression whatsoever that you were buying 'free' hardware?
- saagarjha 6y agoHow could customers punish Apple for that, and that specifically? (I'm being careful with my wording to exclude the response of "switch to Android", because that is not a punishment for that thing specifically–the fact that people don't switch just means Android is worse to them, not that they agree with this particular part of the iOS.)
- millstone 6y agoOne way would be if major web apps launched and iOS users complained about being unable to use them. For example, Spotify Web Player launched without desktop Safari support. If macOS only had Safari, users might have complained and put pressure on Apple to change it.
- lolsal 6y agoConsumers in theory would punish Apple by not buying Apple products. But they don't and I can only guess why (they don't care about browser rendering engines). If you're trying to narrow your punishment to be specifically "the crime of not letting me pick my own browser rendering engine" then I can't help you. This is not a hill I even remotely interested in dying on or spending more time on.
- RonanTheGrey 6y agoKind of like Windows requiring all users to use IE?
- lolsal 6y agoSorry, it's been a decade so I don't remember that whole thing. Were users required to use IE, or was it required to be installed? I remember using Chrome/FF/Opera on Windows for many years. You could swap to another browser for whatever browsing experience you wanted.