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>No. Contrary to popular belief, browsers on iOS aren’t all Safari skins. I know some people hate Apple for both good and bad reasons, but it's pretty wild to
by Forgeties79 5y ago
>No. Contrary to popular belief, browsers on iOS aren’t all Safari skins.
I know some people hate Apple for both good and bad reasons, but it's pretty wild to me people think Apple does this. I mean right out the gate that would be pretty illegal, no?
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- aaaaaaaaata 5y ago...what are you talking about? Every browser you use is forced by App Store policy to run off of the system WebView, which is Safari...other features being part of the browser doesn't change being forced into using that engine.
- JimDabell 5y ago> Every browser you use is forced by App Store policy to run off of the system WebView, which is Safari No. It’s WebKit. Not Safari. That was the whole point of this subthread.
- Forgeties79 5y agoWhat are you talking about lol
- snowwrestler 5y agoIt would not be illegal. In fact the iPhone launched with only Safari. Because Apple is selling the hardware device, they can decide what software they ship on it. This is not specific to phones, it’s true of all hardware. There’s no feature to load arbitrary browsers onto a PlayStation, for example.
- Forgeties79 5y agoI specifically meant letting you download, say, Google Chrome, and it's not actually Chrome but Safari. Unless I'm misunderstanding what that person described, which is totally possible.
- delecti 5y ago> There’s no feature to load arbitrary browsers onto a PlayStation, for example Not anymore. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OtherOS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OtherOS
- semigroupoid 5y agoThat feature has been dead for over ten years.