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Re:Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security by cute_boi on Monday June 27, 2022 @11:14AM (#31895700)
Chrome is installed by default in android. The choice won't be preferred choice if website starts to put message like "Works best with Google Chrome".
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Re:Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security by googlryas on Monday June 27, 2022 @01:38PM (#31897925)
No it isn't - that is a choice made by phone vendors to include it, but they are perfectly free to ship their phones with firefox, or opera, or no browser at all.

The android OS has no knowledge of chrome and it doesn't get any special handling or abilities like iOS/Safari.

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Re:Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security by pdpi on Monday June 27, 2022 @01:51PM (#31898120)
The Android OS has no knowledge of Chrome, but AIUI the licencing for Play Services basically forces you into installing it
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Re:Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security by lkramer on Monday June 27, 2022 @03:57PM (#31899927)
I am unable to uninstall Chrome from my Android phone. That seems pretty special.
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Re:Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security by jcranberry on Monday June 27, 2022 @02:23PM (#31898563)
Samsung by default has their own chromium based browser as the default.
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Re:Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security by smoldesu on Monday June 27, 2022 @11:17AM (#31895761)
Websites already have to do that, because Safari still lacks a number of web technologies that get picked up faster on Chrome and Firefox.
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Re:Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security by jeromegv on Monday June 27, 2022 @12:35PM (#31897016)
But they can’t on mobile. Which is now a bigger part of the web.
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Re:Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security by smoldesu on Monday June 27, 2022 @02:26PM (#31898611)
Sure they can.

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Re:Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security by jensensbutton on Monday June 27, 2022 @01:22PM (#31897718)
They can on Android.
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