All web browsers on iOS are just Safari with different design

Post by SahAssar » Sun, Apr 21, 2024, 7:35 PM UTC

ceejayoz wrote: post #50

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I remember the IE monoculture, and you know what broke it? Choice. Being able to install firefox, opera (and later chrome and safari) on windows, being able to install icab or other browsers on mac os even when apple shipped IE5 as the default.

If IE had been a thing on iOS we might never have been free of it.

Post by SahAssar » Sun, Apr 21, 2024, 8:06 PM UTC

ceejayoz wrote: post #52

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Firefox was already at 25% when the iphone released[0]. The idea that there wasn't competition in the browserspace before the iphone is wrong. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers

Break YouTube in Firefox (which Google does sometimes these days) and people switch to Chrome. Break it on iOS Safari and you’re losing actual revenue.

Post by SahAssar » Sun, Apr 21, 2024, 8:26 PM UTC

ceejayoz wrote: post #54

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You talked about when iOS/iphone launched. Youtube did not work on iOS safari back then since it used flash. You're moving the goalposts. Either way you still have not proven that less user choice now somehow leads to more user choice in the future.

You’re really missing the point, but as a bonus, that’s why the iPhone launched with a dedicated YouTube app; Google didn’t want to give up all that potential revenue. We know letting a dominant player abuse their position to corner the market has long-term downsides to user choice. Windows, IE, and now Chrome.