Re:Apple considering dropping requirement for iPhone web bro...
by dnissley on Thursday December 15, 2022 @12:31PM
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I agree that rendering engine alone won't move the needle. Users may care about features though: PWAs and extensions that don't need to go through the app store review process are the big ones.
Example: "Firefox has an extension that allows you to download videos from youtube -- it's way better than Safari."
Re:Apple considering dropping requirement for iPhone web bro...
by alwillis on Thursday December 15, 2022 @12:56PM
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Sure, but these alternate browsers are already innovating on UI/UX on iOS.
I use Brave on iOS often because it makes doing certain things easier than Safari and it’s UI is quite good.
It’s not a stretch; it’s silly to say otherwise. Regardless of the rendering engine and the ability to make a 3rd-party browser the default on iOS which has been a thing for a few years now, Safari is the most popular browser on iOS and iOS runs on something like 1.5+ billion devices worldwide.
Normies don’t know and don’t care about the rendering engine when they use Firefox, Brave, Chrome, etc. on iOS and yet those browsers probably have single digit installed base on iOS.
And nothing would meaningfully change even if Firefox and Chrome ran natively on iOS.