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Re:Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is comin... by clickety_clack on Sunday January 25, 2026 @09:45AM (#46754446)
I’m a developer too, but the developer experience doesn’t matter to users. As a user of the app, it’s fast enough, cleanly designed, seems to be reasonably private and secure, and I haven’t hit any website with it where I’ve had to download chrome to view it or something.
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Re:Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is comin... by mexicocitinluez on Sunday January 25, 2026 @11:00AM (#46755206)
You're a developer but you can't connect the dots between features being hard to build and the inconsistencies between other browsers vs Safari to how that might effect the user?
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Re:Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is comin... by clickety_clack on Sunday January 25, 2026 @01:07PM (#46756438)
I can be a user separate from being a developer. The user experience of Safari is basically perfect for a browser. The development experience is completely irrelevant from that perspective.
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Re:Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is comin... by mexicocitinluez on Sunday January 25, 2026 @02:17PM (#46757201)
> The user experience of Safari is basically perfect for a browser.

This is such a wild, absolute statement it's not even worth discussing this with you anymore.

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Re:Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is comin... by clickety_clack on Sunday January 25, 2026 @02:27PM (#46757312)
I mean… what do you want me to do, list problems I don’t have with it? As a user of the app, Safari fades completely into the background for me, I don’t know what else I could ask for from a browser.
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