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Should Apple Continue to Ban Rival Browser Engines on iOS?
- wanderer_ 5y agoErm, no. I would love to be able to stop using "webkit-" or whatever in my CSS because everyone quit using Safari.
- JMS2021 5y agoSafari is bottom of our compatibility list. It's junk for PWAs and so is basically treated like Opera was.
- jqpabc123 5y agoRival browsers? What rival browsers? To the Apple faithful, nothing else is worth considering.
- drewg123 5y agoThe thing I miss most about leaving my Android Pixel 2 for an iPhone is real Firefox for mobile with Ublock Origin and other extensions. The Firefox on iOS is nowhere near as good, and I'd love to have Firefox back. This lack of support for rival browser engines is one of the things holding me back from buying an ipad.
- slaw 5y agoI miss Firefox and uBlock origin too. Safari blocking extensions are very crude.
- frazbin 5y agofrom the article: "If Apple stops mandating the use of WebKit on iOS and iPadOS, the developers behind the mobile versions of browsers like Chrome and Edge could switch to Chromium like their desktop counterparts, enabling Chromium to obtain even larger overall market share and potentially limit the chances of rival technologies competing with it." oops they said the quiet part out loud
- faeriechangling 5y agoFrom an "anti-competitive" lens, no, Safari's monopoly on iOS is one of the only things creating meaningful competition for Alphabet financed browsers. From a "Not having to use a crappy browser" lens, yes.