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How is this any different than what google does in google app?
by nojito 5y ago
How is this any different than what google does in google app?
- dgellow 5y agoThey are both bad.
- kgwxd 5y agoPhone OSes got/get away with it because they came out of the gate doing it. MS and Apple have been trying to convert their PC OSes into the same thing ever since. They're envious of Chrome OS. "Compatibility", "standards based" and "open platform" used to be badges of honor. In my opinion, MS and Google would be better off sticking to being open, because if everyone is forced to chose between walled gardens, Apple is going to beat them both every single time.
- mook 5y agoI've been using Firefox as my browser on my Android phone for something like six or seven years now (I guess I'm weird). I don't recall any hard pushes to switch to Chrome. Using a non-Blink browser there is probably rare enough that making people switch isn't worth it. The websites don't seem to want to support Firefox, so Google definitely isn't blameless, but we should probably at least blame them correctly.
- kgwxd 5y agoOh snap, I misread the original comment and went off on the wrong rant, they didn't even mention phones :/ I use FF on Android too. Android is better than others. I have Chrome disabled on my phone and there are some things that just won't open without it. It won't let me shut off the "Play Protect" nag every single time I install or update something from F-Droid. I've accidentally turned it on countless times. But it is the least worst of the mainstream mobile OSes.
- Sunspark 5y agoTry the Samsung Internet Browser.. It will give you the benefits of Chromium but with a better user interface.
- nojito 5y agoHow so?
- pc86 5y agoWhere did they imply it was different?
- paulryanrogers 5y agoOne was already found guilty of abusing their OS near-monopoly on desktop.
- sixothree 5y agoBased on recent Firefox post, HN seems to agree firefox is going down the wrong path and not worth using; but that google and microsoft are evil. They do seem to agree that semicolons are good.