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Safari's always been pretty secretly good - they just got a bad rep for not supporting PWA-related technologies for a while. Because Apple uses Webkit to render
by madeofpalk 3y ago
Safari's always been pretty secretly good - they just got a bad rep for not supporting PWA-related technologies for a while. Because Apple uses Webkit to render a bunch of their "native" UIs, they're often first to adopt native-like interactions or css features (or proposed them themselves), like backdrop-filter or CSS Scroll Snap. Because the web can have a pretty big impact on battery life on phones and laptops, they've also always had a pretty fast and energy efficient js engine.
I'm really doubtful Apple sees Safari as competition for their app store distribution. I don't think that matches reality of how most consumers use mobile devices and spend money.
- MBCook 3y agoI agree. I don’t think they see Safari as competing with the App Store. Even with the recent PWA additions it doesn’t seem to matter. At this point I’d say Safari is 100% a hedge against being fully dependent on Google/Chrome. It started to not be dependent on MS/IE and improve what MS didn’t care a ton about. Apple HATES being fully dependent on others for very important stuff. They’ve been burned too many times. Safari is great. I love it. But there’s no way it is ever going away even if they are forced to preload 18 different app stores and 4 browsers on every phone by the different governments of the world. It’s Apple keeping control of Apple’s destiny.