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Safari is the new IE 6.
by GutenYe 11y ago
Safari is the new IE 6.
- FriedHoller 11y agoApple is the new Microsoft.
- CmonDev 11y agoAndroid is the new Windows.
- happyscrappy 11y agoBecause of the swiss cheese security?
- maze-le 11y agoIt is kind of true. In terms of vendor lock-in Apple is worse, than Microsoft ever was...
- justwannasing 11y agoDefine worse. There's an advantage to "vendor lock-in" in that having control over the whole product gives you advantages others won't have. It allows you to make guarantees others won't, too. Apple can warrant the hardware and software but Microsoft never will, for example.
- maze-le 11y agoI consider beeing coerced to use a limited set of services (for some functionalities) a huge disadvantage. It is a question of control and autonomy over your systems. Do you have control over your machine, or is it the other way around? > having control over the whole product gives you advantages others won't have And that is exactly what you abandon, as a user of locked-in software. I concur infsofar, as there is a set of real world applications, where the advantage you describe really counts. Industrial control systems or hardware for medical applications for example.
- justwannasing 11y agoYou are ignoring the vast majority of users, most of whom aren't on HN or reddit, who don't want such control over their systems and just want them to do what they want and reliably so. Apple fulfills that need and does an excellent job of it. Note: I own no Apple products except for an original iPad given to me on my birthday. I built my own systems from scratch, as a former electronic engineer, and create web sites on FreeBSD.
- justwannasing 11y agohttps://html5test.com/results/desktop.html https://html5test.com/results/desktop.html Now say that again.
- ubertaco 11y agoSo, without knowing anything about how those scores are calculated, I'll point out that currently, desktop Safari (which is much less problematic than iOS Safari) is just behind Edge, a browser that isn't even at v1.0 yet. Even the most literal "new Internet Explorer" -- Edge -- is a more standards-compliant browser than Safari, which has stagnated far behind every other competitor in the list. So yeah, I don't mind saying it again: Safari is the new IE6. Oh, and while you're on that page you linked, click over to "mobiles" and observe that even Blackberry scored higher than iOS (i.e. Safari, since you can't really get any other browser there).