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You are not a representative sample. According to [1] Safari has 28% market share on MacOS. [Edit: This site was wrong, the real number is 37%, see below for a
by modeless 3y ago
You are not a representative sample. According to [1] Safari has 28% market share on MacOS. [Edit: This site was wrong, the real number is 37%, see below for a link]
If WebKit's market share on iOS were to drop this low, web developers would likely test for WebKit a lot less, and tolerate WebKit's missing features a lot less, and Apple would soon face much worse web compatibility problems on both platforms. To prevent that they saw that they needed to seriously step up their investment in WebKit, and from what I've observed it seems like they did. Though perhaps not yet to the level they really need. Old habits die hard.
Of course they could just do what Microsoft did and give up. I'm glad they haven't.
[1] [Edit: this site was wrong, see below for better numbers]
- Angostura 3y agoMost recent data is from 2020 according to the text at the top of the page
- hmottestad 3y agoI tried to find other sources, not easy I must admit. https://radar.cloudflare.com/reports/browser-market-share-2023-q2 https://radar.cloudflare.com/reports/browser-market-share-20... Cloudflare puts Safari at a bit under 40% for MacOS, so it looks like I’m very much n=1 and not particularly representative. Marketshare for Safari on MacOS is close to 85%, so I can definitely see that changing if users could install real alternate browsers.
- modeless 3y agoThanks for finding a better source! Sorry about the misleading number before.
- hmottestad 3y agoNot that much difference between the two really. And compared to iOS it’s a stark contrast to how Safari is doing on Macs.
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