Re:iOS 14 is available today
by Spivak on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @10:25PM
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I mean the most likely effect of iOS allowing alternative browsers is even more Chrome dominance than already currently exists. The fact that a major platform forces developers to not just stop once it works in Chrome is probably a net benefit at this point.
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Re:iOS 14 is available today
by dismantlethesun on Thursday September 17, 2020 @02:45PM
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Not really... for me, iOS is a hard target, because all the non-default browsers (Chrome, Brave, Firefox) interact in different ways with the underlying engine that Safari provides.
Bugs present in iOS browsers, won't be present in Android browsers even if the browser version is the same which makes debugging harder.
For example, it turns having 3 targets (Chrome, Firefox, Safari...) into 5 targets (Chrome Android, Chrome ioS, Firefox Android, Firefox iOS, Safari iOS).
Differences between mobile/desktop browser are relatively minor in comparison.
On the Chrome side, there's fragmentation from all the browser that just wrap Chrome like Samsung Internet and QQ, but those are greatly mitigated by having up to date apps or are region specific so won't apply if your business doesn't do business in China.