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Why are they blocking FF? It seems to me Apple's inviting the same anti-trust problems Microsoft had. Just let FF on and compete.

• Tloewald 14y ago
  A browser is a huge attack surface. It's excluded for the same reason Flash and Java are excluded. BTW I think this justifies Microsoft's stance too. The big problem is that Microsoft has this nasty track record.
  • throwaway64 14y ago
    so we can trust IE to be much more secure and not have problems?
    • Tloewald 14y ago
      No, but ie + other browsers is guaranteed to be less secure than just IE.
      • snupples 14y ago
        Not if you don't use IE
        • Tloewald 14y ago
          IE will be used as a browser widget at API level by third party apps, so using it will be almost unavoidable.
          • pcwalton 14y ago
            I suspect it's likely that apps that wish to use an alternative rendering engine for untrusted content would use IE only for trusted content.