> Sorry to break it to you, but Safari is the better browser.

unless you are in the 92% of the World that does not use Apple HW for computing and/or the 87% of the World that does not use an iPhone.

Safari is in no way a better browser than any competitor. It is widely known in the web developer community that it is rigged with bugs and lagging behind in terms of features.

Perhaps the statement should be, Safari is in no way a better browser than any competitor for developers.

I think this is the correct take. Most comments have been developers complaining that Safari doesn't do esoteric task _x_ rather than their clients can't achieve _y_

Apple make products for the top end of customers and they don't want to be dealing with complaints from Grandma about battery life because they hit a series of dark patterns and accidentally installed Chrome and made it default.

They've made it quite clear IMO that pwa style products would be better served by a native app.

That's like saying we should be writing all our applications in assembly.

No. Developer productivity is important, and it does impact the end user in quality and amount of features.

It's not important to me that your job is easier. I'm a dev and I deal with hard shit 5 days out of the week. My users don't give fk about that, they only care that my product works on their phone.

If Safari is the better browser, they should allow competition. Users will choose the better browser anyway.

Not when Google properties show their “some features wont work on your browser” lies, err, alerts.

~65% of users are not savvy enough to see this as the marketing statement it is, and will treat it as a real reason to get chrome. I’ve watched it happen in front of my eyes.

> Sorry to break it to you, but Safari is the better browser.

> I’m glad they limit the engine choice.

Why is that necessary if Safari is the better browser anyway?

Because the browser market is not a free market; both Apple and Google leverage their existing positions in other markets to promote their browsers.

If only Apple would prevent grandparent commenter from installing browsers with other rendering engines on MacOS too. Why isn't Apple, in its benevolence, restricting browser choice on MacOS?