Tell HN: Apple Pay works in non-Safari browsers in iOS 16 Beta 3

Re:Tell HN: Apple Pay works in non-Safari browsers in iOS 16... by pmontra on Friday July 29, 2022 @04:40PM (#32281511)

Letting all browsers with a Safari engine use all the features of Safari-Safari fed be a way to nudge users to keep using Safari browsers instead of other browser engines, when that EU law forces Apple to open up the platform. The other browsers could be forever behind is iOS features. However that's going to make the browser experience closer to native.

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Re:Tell HN: Apple Pay works in non-Safari browsers in iOS 16... by jefftk on Friday July 29, 2022 @06:53PM (#32282611)

I'm glad Apple is opening up features for other browsers to use on iOS, but I don't understand how this nudges users? As soon as it is permitted, Firefox, Chrome, etc will switch from their WebKit based implementations to using their own engines.

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Re:Tell HN: Apple Pay works in non-Safari browsers in iOS 16... by pmontra on Saturday July 30, 2022 @12:18AM (#32284245)

I might be wrong but if the upgrade from Chrome-Safari to Chrome-Chrome means that users lose Apple Pay inside the browser, something they just got used to have, maybe they switch to Safari-Safari to keep the feature.

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