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Because the browser landscape is completely different in mobile? There isn't really any reason not to separate them. They're completely different markets.
by mynameisvlad 12y ago
Because the browser landscape is completely different in mobile? There isn't really any reason not to separate them. They're completely different markets.
- Turing_Machine 12y agoNo, they aren't different "markets" They're not even different code. Safari on iOS comes from the same code base as Safari on desktop, and I'm pretty sure the same is true for Chrome on Android (Chrome on iOS, like other iOS browsers, is just a wrapper around the Safari engine). The old Android browser was different code, but that's been on its deathbed for a while now. Mobile users use the same sites as desktop users, to a very large degree. They use the same browser code (again, to a very large degree). The only reason to separate them that I can see is to artificially inflate the number of IE users.