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Re:Google Play Developer Antitrust Litigation by toast0 on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @02:36AM (#34592390)
> Also I've never really heard of someone complain about Safari compared to IE/Edge so maybe there wasn't any traction for something like that.

Well, when Apple was letting other people ship hardware with their OS, I don't think they bundled a browser or restricted their hardware partners from bundling one. Also, in those days, Safari didn't exist. I think Apple may have bundled IE 5.5 for a while, but I'm not totally sure.

People do complain about Safari being the only browser engine on Mac. But on desktop, might as well have Safari so you can download something else without using the command line; which is also what IE/Edge is good for (especially since windows's ftp command line wasn't very good and ftp is mostly dead)

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Re:Google Play Developer Antitrust Litigation by jeroenhd on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @05:10AM (#34593377)
Windows Explorer has had native FTP support forever now. All you need to do is point it at the Mozilla servers and you could get another browser without even opening up IE. Sure, it wasn't as fast as FileZilla, but it got the job done.
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