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IMO, at this point, Apple’s resistance to allowing other browser engines is the only viable resistance to a Blink/Chromium monopoly.
by the_other 4y ago
IMO, at this point, Apple’s resistance to allowing other browser engines is the only viable resistance to a Blink/Chromium monopoly.
- agust 4y agoIt's highly unlikely that opening up iOS to competing browser engines will result in Chrome taking over. It has always been that way on macOS, and yet Safari is dominant there with around 60% market share. What is much more likely is that Apple will start investing properly in WebKit to be able to compete with Blink and Gecko. It's in fact already happening.
- tshell 4y agoDo you have a source for that 60% figure? That seems odd to me. Almost every non-techy person I know with a Mac still uses Chrome.
- ajvs 4y agoNot really since CMA also took aim at Google Chrome's dominance. If that is made no longer the default browser then it'd go a long way to increasing browser diversity. I can only hope Gecko (Firefox) grows in the wake of that.
- tzs 4y agoChrome is not the default browser on Windows yet massively dominates there with around 9x the usage of Firefox (and around maybe 6x the usage of the Windows default browser, Edge).
- philistine 4y agoAren't OEMs bundling Chrome as an opportunity to sell extensions installs?