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Isn't the same true of Safari? It seems most of the complaints leveled at Google around Android are as bad in the Apple ecosystem.
by myko 6y ago
Isn't the same true of Safari? It seems most of the complaints leveled at Google around Android are as bad in the Apple ecosystem.
- sharkjacobs 6y agoIt's the preinstalled default but you've been able to remove Safari from iOS for a couple years now.
- myko 6y agoNot really, only iOS 14 allows the user to select a different browser as the default - and it does so in some severely limiting ways: - It isn't actually that browser rendering anything, it's Safari under the covers (though Chrome does replace the networking stack with its own) - Every attempt to launch a browser other than Safari requires an extra selection on the user's part to approve it. Every time.
- heavyset_go 6y agoNot only that, but other browser engines are not allowed on iOS at all. Even Firefox is just a skin over Safari's WebKit on iOS.
- scarface74 6y agoYes, but what’s not true about Apple/Safari is that Apple hasn’t raised the ire of the administration for being “unfair to conservatives”. Don’t you find it a little strange that pro-business/anti-regulation conservatives are going after “big business”?
- myko 6y agoI don't find it strange actually, it's what I expect out of the current crop of conservatives in the US. It's frightening but it is where we are.
- m463 6y agoI hope that the actions against google will also be leveled at apple as well. For example, apple has built deep linking into their browsing pipeline (allowing phone applications to snoop and intercept registered URLs). For example, if the amazon app is loaded, any web/email/imessage activity to an amazon url gets sent to the app.
- bobbylarrybobby 6y agoApple probably gets more leeway because they don’t force manufacturers to do anything — they are the manufacturer.