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But Safari is the default. And if all the options are equal, then there’s no reason to switch from the default. It’s hard enough to convince people to switch
by comex 4y ago
But Safari is the default. And if all the options are equal, then there’s no reason to switch from the default. It’s hard enough to convince people to switch browsers in the best of cases, let alone when the list of potential advantages or differentiators you can offer is severely cut down.
- alwillis 4y agoBut Safari is the default. iOS supports changing the default browser to something that’s not Safari. It’s not only about the rendering engines; Brave on iOS has other features and a UI/UX that I like that’s not present in Safari. 3rd party browsers on iOS have other ways of differentiating themselves, especially if you use those browsers on other platforms, like bookmark syncing, etc. 90% of end-users couldn’t care less what’s being used to render their websites on iOS.
- paulryanrogers 4y agoLocking the rendering engine blocks a host of capabilities, both for the browser itself and its ability to support 3P extensions
- alwillis 4y agoI doubt it. Safari has 3rd party extensions on iOS and WebKit has all of the important web platform features… in fact, it has pulled ahead of Chrome. What Apple is avoiding is all of the security issues attempting to support multiple web engines.
- brokenmachine 4y agoNot an Apple guy, but I thought adblocking was not as good on Safari.