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Re:About the browser choice screen in the EU by psyonity on Friday August 23, 2024 @05:56AM (#41327634)
While I think this change is great, I am not directly convinced Safari should be included in the list by their own rules, considering the app has not been explicitly downloaded by at least 5,000 users in the prior calendar year.
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Re:About the browser choice screen in the EU by brookst on Friday August 23, 2024 @07:40AM (#41328094)
That seems like a strange claim. Any source for it? Safari can be deleted on iOS and I find it hard to believe that less than 5000 people do that and then re-download it a year.
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Re:About the browser choice screen in the EU by Diti on Friday August 23, 2024 @08:28AM (#41328409)
I live in the EU and I can’t delete Safari on iOS. I, too, am curious about that claim.
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Re:About the browser choice screen in the EU by TheCleric on Friday August 23, 2024 @11:26PM (#41335319)
I think they mean as an App Store download (since it comes with the phone, so therefore has 0 app downloads).
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Re:About the browser choice screen in the EU by brookst on Sunday August 25, 2024 @10:39AM (#41347614)
When you delete it from the phone, you have to redownload it from app store to get it back. I would be shocked if less than 5000 people a year did that.
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Re:About the browser choice screen in the EU by threeseed on Friday August 23, 2024 @06:44AM (#41327852)
Far more than 5,000 users have downloaded the Safari Technology Preview.
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Re:About the browser choice screen in the EU by joekrill on Friday August 23, 2024 @08:32AM (#41328455)
> If a developer has multiple browser apps, only the most downloaded app will be eligible

Then that would imply that only the Safari Technology Preview should be eligible.

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Re:About the browser choice screen in the EU by carlosjobim on Friday August 23, 2024 @06:35AM (#41327816)
I knew that hackers still would not be satisfied. Thanks for spending some time to invent a reason to continue raging against Apple, so that the rest can go back to work.
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