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It's a market share issue. How many people do you know who use a mobile Internet device that doesn't run iOS or Android? Exactly. If open webOS gets its shit
by bsimpson 15y ago
It's a market share issue. How many people do you know who use a mobile Internet device that doesn't run iOS or Android? Exactly. If open webOS gets its shit together, maybe we'll have three mobile platforms instead of two.
The point is, they all use WebKit.
Mobile is a trendy thing to talk about, but a lot of people still think of the Web as a desktoppy place to be. If they start testing their apps on mobile as well, they aren't going to start by testing for Opera Mobile - they're going to test what people actually use (iOS and Android).
Opera on both the desktop and mobile and Firefox on mobile are in such a minority that it's not worth the QA time to test them or the developer time to fix them in many cases. This, of course, will continue to support an ecosystem where the only mobile UA that matters is WebKit.