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Misses the most important point: syncing. I don't know about the masses, but at least that was the biggest reason in my circles why people were excited to have Chrome on iOS.
Not only does Chrome on iOS sync bookmarks, but it allows you to see what tabs are open on Chrome on all your other devices and what tabs were last open on devices which are currently switched off.
Hilarious on every point. 1. If the web browser is redundant then would would anyone make the effort to download Chrome. Nice self-contradiction here. 2. Safari in Mountain Lion has a single URL field with predictive search just like Chrome. So it could be an upcoming feature for iOS6 for all we now. 3. I fail to see what technology apart from maybe SPDY Google has "invented" that allows it to be so dramatically fast…
Do you mean Chrome on iOS or desktop? Which benchmarks are showing Chrome to be pretty slow?
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Regarding point one, if I understand correctly the author means that since most apps open in their own web view rather then opening safari directly the fact that chrome can't be integrated is less of a problem. The browser is not redundant, as people start it when they want to browse to some random page. For me I don't agree, I open safari from apps all the time, so lack of integration pretty much guarantees that I w…
BrowserChanger by Ryan Petrich solves that last problem. I'm assuming Hacker News readers are jailbroken.
Misses the most important point: syncing. I don't know about the masses, but at least that was the biggest reason in my circles why people were excited to have Chrome on iOS.
It makes me wonder about how many iPad users have Android phones, or iPhone users with Windows (or even Linux) machines, or iPhone users with Nexus 7s etc., you get the idea, anyone not fully inside the Apple sphere is probably going to get a lot of benefit from unifying browsing across platforms.
Hilarious on every point. 1. If the web browser is redundant then would would anyone make the effort to download Chrome. Nice self-contradiction here. 2. Safari in Mountain Lion has a single URL field with predictive search just like Chrome. So it could be an upcoming feature for iOS6 for all we now. 3. I fail to see what technology apart from maybe SPDY Google has "invented" that allows it to be so dramatically fast…
> Especially when benchmarks today show Chrome to be pretty slow Do you mean Chrome on iOS or desktop? Which benchmarks are showing Chrome to be pretty slow?
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jwherrman/the-problem-with-chrome-fo...
I love V8 infinitely better than Apple's JS engine, but you can't say Safari is less developer friendly than Chrome.
Safari 6 has much more developer tools now (detailed timeline of element renders & JS timers/dispatches), in a nicer package. And, the new Web Inspector in iOS 6 is absolutely marvelous! You open the webpage on iPad and inspect it on Safari's new web inspector (and you can tap on different elements to inspect them, just as you can do in FireBug).
http://adrielservice.com/blog/?p=894
http://taitems.tumblr.com/post/24936855546/what-ios-6-mobile...
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Regarding point one, if I understand correctly the author means that since most apps open in their own web view rather then opening safari directly the fact that chrome can't be integrated is less of a problem. The browser is not redundant, as people start it when they want to browse to some random page. For me I don't agree, I open safari from apps all the time, so lack of integration pretty much guarantees that I w…
BrowserChanger by Ryan Petrich solves that last problem. I'm assuming Hacker News readers are jailbroken.
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BrowserChanger by Ryan Petrich solves that last problem. I'm assuming Hacker News readers are jailbroken.
Why should they be? I used to jailbreak, but Apple added almost every feature I needed and now it takes JBers 3-6 months to jailbreak the latest iOS, so I don't bother with jailbreak anymore and install iOS 6 the minute it comes out (and profit).
The jailbreak tweaks are usually better than Apple's own implementations too, even from the beginning. Backgrounder is far more powerful than built in backgrounding. LockInfo is extensible and beautiful. Winterboard (and originally Summerboard) allow far greater control over theming than Apple allows. A quick settings pane like SBSettings, incredibly useful, and been there for years.
I can't imagine being without a jailbreak. My iPod Touch would be useless to me without.
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Why should they be? I used to jailbreak, but Apple added almost every feature I needed and now it takes JBers 3-6 months to jailbreak the latest iOS, so I don't bother with jailbreak anymore and install iOS 6 the minute it comes out (and profit).
Well, I think it's more reasons than just new features. It's the very idea of escaping the walled garden. You can disable the killswitch, you can install any tweak you please, or even develop your own. You don't even have a filesystem explorer unless you jailbreak, or a console. The jailbreak tweaks are usually better than Apple's own implementations too, even from the beginning. Backgrounder is far more powerful tha…
And thanks for reminding (and torturing) me about SBSettings. Actually, that's the only thing I miss terribly from my JB days...