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Brave Browser Reports Spike in EU Installs After iOS 17.4 DMA Changes
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Wonderful. As soon as they can implement their own engines we will be in a world completely dominated by Chrome. 🤢🤮
To all those complaining about Apple being 90s Microsoft and yet welcoming the Chrome takeover:
To all those complaining about Apple being 90s Microsoft and yet welcoming the Chrome takeover:
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A small increase as a tiny number of people choose to try a different browser. It’s all such a waste of time and pointlessly disrupts the smooth flow of the Apple experience.
I understand why people are complaining but the actual numbers are right there on the chart (in contrast to misleading Apple relative performance chats). If you watch CNBC, all their charts look like this one.
Interesting that Safari isn’t even shown in that randomized screen of browser choices. A top ten list sounded like a ridiculously large number of browsers, but I guess that allows it to be a large enough number to make the user have to scroll.
Safari (especially!!!) and Firefox are being monetized by Google ads too but, again, all of this is more of a Google search/ad "anticompetitiveness" issue than a browser "anticompetitiveness" issue.
I never said they were blocked. I was reacting to your comment that platforms (like Windows, iOS, etc.) should be able to decide what is allowed or not allowed on their platform and that was behind my Microsoft/browsers question i.e., do you think MS should've been allowed to (not whether they did or not) restrict or even block alternative browsers on Windows as that would be their decision as to what is allowed on their platform.
If that ends up happening, at least it would be due to consumers choosing rather than Apple restricting choice on a major segment of the mobile OS market.
If Apple wants to try to reduce Chrome's dominance, they could release Safari for Windows and Android. I would love to see that happen.
Again, not what I said. I said equal footing, not banned. Equal footing is putting the same level of attention on other browsers, such as advertising what the most popular browsers are. That already exists to a degree in the Appstore. I am more than capable of deciding which browser I want to use. Having the Government step in is almost insulting, suggesting users are not smart enough to find these things on their own.
Safari is being shown there. It's a top 12 list actually.
About the browser choice screen in the EU - Support - Apple Developer
What? How that would help when the list is random for every user and not in alphabetical order?
Well, then you're the perfect person for browser choice screen! To learn about most used browsers out there.
just never saw a need. A browser is a browser. Safari does just about everything and it’s easy to keep synced across all my apple devices. On the rare it doesn’t work for some reason i can fire up chrome for a banking website or something incompatible. Something more obscure than safari doesn’t seem logical to me
Maybe enhanced privacy? No ads?
Yeah, you can always drive Ford and be fine. Or you can try Lexus or Audi and find alternative that suits you even better.
Not really compared to Brave. And that's what I'm talking about. You may think Ford has all the luxury too - until you try Lexus or Audi (not even talking about more luxurious brands there).
They tried releasing safari on windows. It was a **** sandwich frankly.