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Why do you say iOS and macOS are different?

• modeless 3y ago
  Personally, it comes down to the input method. The entire UI is different because the input method demands it. The version of Safari on Vision Pro will be different too. But the iPhone and iPad versions are practically the same. Of course whether macOS and iOS Safari are different enough to qualify as separate things depends entirely on context. I don't know the context here, but it seems unlikely that Apple's argument makes sense.
• sokoloff 3y ago
  My experience as a daily user of both is that a touch-driven browser running on a battery and CPU limited device with a small screen where that engine is the only approved engine in the platform feels substantially different as a product than a mouse-driven one on a far less constrained system and where other browser engines are explicitly permitted. I can’t say the extent to which there’s source-level sharing, but from a product angle, I think of them as a different product, same as I think of Outlook Web Access/O365 as different from the fat-client Outlook mail client or Word being a different product from Excel even though they’re commonly sold in a bundle. (I’m not claiming to be definitively correct here, just admitting that I agree in one key area with Apple’s argument.)
• simondotau 3y ago
  Other than sharing a rendering engine (which itself behaves very differently based on the target OS) they're clearly very different pieces of software. Arguably Chrome and Edge are significantly more similar.