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Re:Apple considering dropping requirement for iPhone web bro... by apaprocki on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @02:16PM (#33988585)
Battery life, keychain, PIN numbers from iMessage, integration between desktop/mobile, it's not supported by ads/Google...
Re:Apple considering dropping requirement for iPhone web bro... by aequitas on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @02:42PM (#33989044)
Keychain is a big one for me. In the past, Chrome used to support Keychain for their passwords, which meant I could sync all my secrets on any browser on any of my devices.
Re:Apple considering dropping requirement for iPhone web bro... by Zuiii on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @09:32PM (#33994354)
Why did Chrome stop supporting it? Seeing that they support more obscure keychain apps like whatever ships with KDE and Gnome, I suspect that it was not due to a lack in resources.
Re:Apple considering dropping requirement for iPhone web bro... by sodality2 on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @02:43PM (#33989073)
> PIN numbers from iMessage

This isn't actually a Safari feature but an iOS feature AFAIK.

Re:Apple considering dropping requirement for iPhone web bro... by yamtaddle on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @03:03PM (#33989468)
I'm like 99% sure this works on desktop, too, if you've got iMessage configured.
Re:Apple considering dropping requirement for iPhone web bro... by bobwaycott on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @03:14PM (#33989689)
It does.
Re:Apple considering dropping requirement for iPhone web bro... by kemayo on Thursday December 15, 2022 @04:53PM (#34006346)
It's an OS-level keyboard feature on iOS, but on macOS I think it's only part of Safari.
Re:Apple considering dropping requirement for iPhone web bro... by ask_b123 on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @04:57PM (#33991185)
I don't really use Safari (for the sole reason called uBlock Origin), but something really nice is that Look Up displays a scrollable preview of pages/links.

I really miss that since it greatly reduced the amount of tabs I opened.