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Why can Google optimize their apps for their browser? Their mobile OS? Their Chromebooks and phones? Apple locks down their platforms for security and safety.
by gregjor 3y ago
Why can Google optimize their apps for their browser? Their mobile OS? Their Chromebooks and phones?
Apple locks down their platforms for security and safety. The majority of their users benefit more from not getting malware and junk apps than they miss by not having Chrome or Firefox. A small minority of users get inconvenienced. Don’t like it? Use Android.
Apple sells consumer electronics. Developers looking to replace a Macbook with an iPad — something I’ve done and written about — represent a negligible fraction of Apple’s customers.
- skydhash 3y agoAn iPad is fantastic for some activities like: Active reading when you can use the pencil to mark and write on the ebook; Drawing with apps like procreate; Writing with apps like iA Writer; General productivity things as many apps have iPad companions; and General browsing as it has a bigger screen than the iPhone. AFAIK, Safari is sticking to the web standards. I use it on my Mac and all the website I visit and the web apps I'm using is working there. Only google's ones keep telling me they're not enabling some features because I'm not using Chrome. And I prefer not having this feature if it means downloading a specific browser for it. Web tech is web tech, there shouldn't be Google tech and everyone else tech.