Apple's 15% Deflection Tactic

Re:Apple's 15% Deflection Tactic by heavyset_go on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @07:53PM (#25144915)

And quite literally a choice for a browser, because Apple mandates that all browsers on the App Store use Safari on the backend, which means that Chrome and Firefox are just skins over Safari on iOS.

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Re:Apple's 15% Deflection Tactic by SulfurHexaFluri on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @08:23PM (#25145134)

This would be huge because Safari is missing so many APIs and leaves users on an unusable browser when they stop getting OS updates.

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Re:Apple's 15% Deflection Tactic by Bud on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @08:47PM (#25145295)

This would not be huge, because iOS devices don't stop getting updates for 6-8 years, by which time it is very unlikely that third parties would bother making a special browser app just for that unprofitable 0.1% slice of the market.

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