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It 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
by snowwrestler 5y ago
It 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.