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If Microsoft and Google get into a war over who can be the most obnoxious to people using the other's stuff, that sounds like great advertisement for Apple to m

If Microsoft and Google get into a war over who can be the most obnoxious to people using the other's stuff, that sounds like great advertisement for Apple to me... "Use Safari! It won't yell at you for daring to visit a competitor's website!"

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gretch 4y ago
There’s no reason why Apple can’t be pulled into a stupid war. Imagine going to the iPad product page on Edge and being met with “hey you should buy a surface tablet instead”. Apple then retaliates with similar tactics.
pcblues 4y ago
And where will it show that ad? Whenever you use their devices to visit Google and MS sites, of course :)
goosedragons 4y ago
Yeah, Apple isn't immune to this crap either: https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/TRYTHENEWSAFARI.html https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/TRYTHENEWSAFARI.html
tcheard 4y ago
No Apple just don't even allow you to install a non Webkit browser from the app store on their phones. Why waste time advertising on competitor's websites when you can just stop them from using competitors altogether (or at least require them to use you at the same time)
- someNameIG 4y ago
  That's only the rendering engine, Chrome and Edge would still have all their tracking, marketing, default search built into their browsers on iOS.
eertami 4y ago
Only if you're naive enough to think that Apple doesn't do the exact same thing with Safari when you launch other browsers... https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/153379/how-do-you-turn-off-the-try-the-new-safari-notification https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/153379/how-do-you-...
- danaris 4y ago
  While there's definitely a lot of similarity, I think there's still quite a big difference between a system notification popping up saying "try Safari" and hijacking the webpage of your competitor to say "try Edge".

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If Microsoft and Google get into a war over who can be the most obnoxious to people using the other's stuff, that sounds like great advertisement for Apple to m

by danaris 4y ago

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gretch 4y ago
There’s no reason why Apple can’t be pulled into a stupid war. Imagine going to the iPad product page on Edge and being met with “hey you should buy a surface tablet instead”. Apple then retaliates with similar tactics.
pcblues 4y ago
And where will it show that ad? Whenever you use their devices to visit Google and MS sites, of course :)
goosedragons 4y ago
Yeah, Apple isn't immune to this crap either: https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/TRYTHENEWSAFARI.html https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/TRYTHENEWSAFARI.html
tcheard 4y ago
No Apple just don't even allow you to install a non Webkit browser from the app store on their phones. Why waste time advertising on competitor's websites when you can just stop them from using competitors altogether (or at least require them to use you at the same time)
- someNameIG 4y ago
  That's only the rendering engine, Chrome and Edge would still have all their tracking, marketing, default search built into their browsers on iOS.
eertami 4y ago
Only if you're naive enough to think that Apple doesn't do the exact same thing with Safari when you launch other browsers... https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/153379/how-do-you-turn-off-the-try-the-new-safari-notification https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/153379/how-do-you-...
- danaris 4y ago
  While there's definitely a lot of similarity, I think there's still quite a big difference between a system notification popping up saying "try Safari" and hijacking the webpage of your competitor to say "try Edge".