Re:"This community is available in the app"
by bla3 on Sunday February 16, 2020 @09:12AM
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App permissions may be better than on Android, but browser choice just doesn't exist on iOS. So suggesting iOS to people who'd rather use the web page than the app seems a bit strange.
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Re:"This community is available in the app"
by teh_infallible on Sunday February 16, 2020 @10:00AM
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Browser choice does exist on iOS. I use Brave.
Re:"This community is available in the app"
by the8472 on Sunday February 16, 2020 @10:08AM
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All browsers on iphones are reskinned webkits.
Re:"This community is available in the app"
by samatman on Sunday February 16, 2020 @11:51AM
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Brave is reskinned Chromium everywhere else, and reskinned Webkit on iOS.
People who use Brave use it for reasons other than access to a unique rendering engine. Many of those reasons apply to the iOS version as well.
Not making a case for Apple's decision here. I'd be happy if Gecko were available on iOS; there's no way I'd burn my battery like that, but competition is good.
But it's not as simple as "there's one browser on iOS" either, the rendering engine is just one part of what makes a browser unique and useful.