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I don't understand this argument. End users don't care about browser engines and they can install "Chrome" right now. But most iOS users don't.
by cageface 5y ago
I don't understand this argument. End users don't care about browser engines and they can install "Chrome" right now. But most iOS users don't.
- handrous 5y agoGoogle's not pushing it hard on iOS, and it can't offer enhanced features or tailor (ahem) its sites to run better on the Chrome engine on iOS. That makes it a harder sell, and the "Google sites all works better on Chrome (because we made sure they do...) download it here!" ads they had success with on desktop would simply be lies, if they tried that. They also can't get other apps to embed their engine so they get those sweet, sweet analytics from those, too. FB would likely do the same (probably with a fork of Chrome, for obvious reasons).
- cageface 5y agoGoogle can do all the data harvesting they want with the wrapped version and that's mostly what they care about. There are already a lot of benefits to iOS users that are heavily involved in Google's ecosystem to use Chrome but mostly they don't.
- username90 5y agoEnd users certainly cares about browser engines, so many things doesn't work in Safary since it doesn't support any new features. So they would see "please upgrade your browser to play this game" etc everywhere, and they would upgrade to real chrome. Instead since ios doesn't support other browser engines those games simply wont run on ios period.