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Definitely. The situation on iOS is much worse than it ever was on Windows. Apple is banning all competition in the browser space on more than 1 billion devices
by agust 5y ago
Definitely. The situation on iOS is much worse than it ever was on Windows. Apple is banning all competition in the browser space on more than 1 billion devices worldwide.
Antitrust legislators would surely be very interested in this if they were aware of the issue, but most of them probably aren't yet. Some people have been talking to regulators, like Stuart Langridge and Bruce Lawson to the UK regulator, the CMA.
Stuart Langridge presentation to the CMA: https://kryogenix.org/code/cma-apple/ https://kryogenix.org/code/cma-apple/
- rectang 5y agoI have mixed feelings about this. Without Safari being required on iOS, Chrome's market share would be overwhelming and then we'd be in a situation back more like the bad old days of IE, where a single browser dominated not just on one OS but across the entire ecosystem.
- kitsunesoba 5y agoAnd undoubtedly, if Blink-Chrome were present on iOS you can bet that many web devs would target that exclusively, requiring you to trade away battery life and privacy to use the entire web. The web should be to the greatest extent possible browser agnostic.