That's actually the only good reason I've seen for why Safari is the new IE.
Chrome however is the new IE. I'll explain:
- IE was technologically somewhat superior at its time, just like Chrome is now.
- Only that when the competition was truly crushed, Microsoft couldn't justify spending money on it anymore.
- The same will happen with Chrome as well only this time they will manage to find resources to kill adblocking first. ... for our safety, of course
- On the most popular consumer operating system in the United States by numbers (iOS), it is the default browser, which is..
- furthest behind in supporting web standards. It is easy to theorize that Apple has no incentive to improve Safari given how lucrative..
- the App Store is. Apple is under antitrust scrutiny (see Epic vs. Apple), similar how Microsoft was under antitrust scrutiny due to IE integration into Windows. iOS goes further than Windows did in that iOS forces all browsers to use the same underlying browser engine.
* https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/united-states...