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Consider, for example, MBNA in Canada no longer supporting Firefox. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32350109 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32350109
by Devasta 4y ago
Consider, for example, MBNA in Canada no longer supporting Firefox.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32350109 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32350109
Is the user, just some ordinary joe who isnt especially technical, going to switch banks to continue using FF or is he going to switch to Chrome and carry on his day? When google search, youtube, maps, and a bunch of third party sites all start recommending Chrome as well, what happens then?
Most websites have financial incentives to only support one browser, if they can get rid of WebKit they will, standards be damned.
- KyeRussell 4y agoFirefox is off the beaten path. iOS Safari isn’t. Someone has to be ballsy enough to do make that first call. These kids calling it “the new IE” are being dramatic. iOS Safari as it is right now is nowhere near what IE was. Any meaningful organisation that makes the first call on not supporting iOS Safari is…to put it one way…not somewhere that I want to work. Because it sounds like the prioritises are being set by a nerd with a chip on his (yes, his) shoulder instead of what’s best for the user or for the business.
- forgetfulness 4y agoGoogle will pay handsomely to a good bunch of "nerds" to gain dominance on iOS with Chrome as it did in other platforms, and then it will make business sense for independent vendors to drop support for anything but Chrome.