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> iOS Safari's level as the only browser people should use. FWIW, iOS doesn't chide you when you download Chrome or Firefox. Of course Apple requires them to u
by Angostura 5y ago
> iOS Safari's level as the only browser people should use.
FWIW, iOS doesn't chide you when you download Chrome or Firefox. Of course Apple requires them to use the iOS rendering engine - but that's perhaps a slightly different point.
- jeegsy 5y ago> Of course Apple requires them to use the iOS rendering engine How is apple allowed to do this? Would MSoft have escaped the legal trouble back then if they had simply insisted that Netscape had to run like IE?
- freediver 5y agoForcing the rendering engine upon a browser manufacturer is just "cost of doing business" on iOS. It does not have as negative consequences as forcing an entire browser upon a user (like Microsoft is doing). Chrome on iOS can still do pretty much everything it wants, including telemetry, sync etc. The users are ensured to get a browser with a rendering engine that is carefully optimized for performance and battery life by the phone manufacturer, so I'd argue the user is actually better off.
- bko 5y agoIs it still impossible to set your default browser on iOS? That to me is even more hostile than just having me click an extra button once to download it.
- selfhoster69 5y agoI don't think so. Didn't a recent software update change this?
- somehnguy 5y agoStarted with iOS 14, so a little over a year ago.
- Brian_K_White 5y agothe ability or the inability?
- somehnguy 5y agoAbility
- amykhar 5y agoNo. You've been able to change the default browser for years.
- ichik 5y agoOn macOS Safari prompts me to set it as a default browser every time I launch it.
- SllX 5y agoThat’s interesting because it doesn’t for me as if Safari 15.1, but Chrome certainly does as of version whatever is the latest (and I use Firefox as my default on this machine). Most browsers will, or to be more precise: I’ve never met a browser that didn’t request to be the default, but there’s usually a point where they stop asking or else a setting to disable that “feature”.
- Tagbert 5y agoI always use Firefox and have never seen such a prompt. Do you just close the prompt without answering “no, thank you”? Maybe it is waiting for an answer?
- FireBeyond 5y agomacOS does display something when you do, the first time ever. Initially I thought "why don't Apple get called out for that?", but upon reading this article, 1) it's once, and less intrusive, and 2) is not cringey/loaded with an air of smugness or condescension like some of these prompts.