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But what do we get? We get stuff like that below. Easiest pick is to accept all cookies. And who defines the "best experience" here?

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oh I hate this like a plague. If I would meet the people in person responsible for this, I would perform an act that peasants done to witches for centuries :D
 
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agh, this is total sh*t. I will need to scroll though a bunch of crap to find Safari and set it as a default. And one more annoying UI element.
I admit it does sound like an incredibly complicated thing to do just once. We can only wait with bated breath to see how the rest of the world will cope.
 
I admit it does sound like an incredibly complicated thing to do just once. We can only wait with bated breath to see how the rest of the world will cope.
I already know how it will go. Geeks will select what they want and be happy. Google will be happy because probably they will not need to pay apple for search results and most of the people will choose chrome. But there will be a lot of people who will choose some random crap. And the the family members that are a bit more computer savvy will need to go and fix their malware ridden browsers.
 
What a way to mess up the user experience. Another stupid setting for annoyance.

And, might I ask, how difficult it will be when people want to switch after they choose incorrectly?


To clarify my point: This is solving a problem that, for most users, doesn't exist. Why bother?

Hmm. Just so you're not aware of various browser choices and their strengths, doesn't mean MANY other users are not aware and up to this point been VERY limited.

IOS mdm profile stack had extreme limitations of corporate intranet site rendering - forcing a lot of 3rd party apps to render what should've been done in the browser : invoice/bill receipt uploads, SharePoint 365 sites for teams etc.

many here havw never heard of WaterFox browser - its beginnings focus, going private rhen quickly BACK to opensource coding updates and all its feature sets, and specifics removed never to be allowed and the reasons behind it. Many here think Brave is a secure browser (ROFLMAO) and its not even close.

there is strong and real benefits to having end user choice of browsers, and when you start to use the various engines.


Not anymore. They can all bring their own engines now. No more relying on WebKit
Finally!!!!!!!

I'm all for choice, but preferably good ones. It seems to me that anything that is going to undo or weaken our already imperilled data privacy and security is a bad thing. A bad choice. Like putting a shonky browser on your iPhone and then trusting it to access your bank account. Or installing apps from goodness knows what app-like-stores which hoover up all manner of data that they shouldn't because they have not been screened well enough or at all. And people will do these things. Because they can. Apple isn't perfect. AppStore isn't perfect. Safari is far from perfect. But I trust them more than I trust any of this other nonsense. I'm in the UK, so this likely won't even be a choice for me. But if it did become a choice, I know exactly what I would do. And incredibly this from the entity that brought us GDPR - a good thing.

Since Apple controls a LOT of thr information available to independent 3rd parties of their businesses and services, you're not getting the FULL & HONEST data or details.

Would you trust your child or spouses safety when in the home, alone, of someone with dictator like beliefs behaviours, and actions? Of course not, so why would you believe Apple to be fully forthcoming of any breeches to security and end user data?! Like why is there Safari security updates mentioned on this site yet no update to iOS nor iPados on same day?! ???
 
Interesting, but IIRC, the Walter Isaacson biography said that Jobs was inspired by the way AAA shows up first in the phone book and so similarly went with AAPL.

Just because those other two names were taken doesn't mean they didn't have other options. At the time, the company was known as Apple Computer, Inc - they could have gone with something like APLC or APLI.
 
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