Comment on No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter - Waterfox Blog

gointhefridge@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• sem@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Iirc aren’t all iOS browsers just reskinned safari?

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  • setsubyou@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The EU forced Apple to allow other rendering engines, but implementing one costs money vs just using WebKit for free, so nobody does it.

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    • YallCantFlimFlamTheZimZam@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      There’s also the very real possibility that the “law and order” of western democracies will be destroyed by the same technocratic corporate sociopath cancer that has destroyed the USA — under the guise of christian fascism and various culture wars — so why bother investing resources in an anti-monopoly measure that Apple may be able to bribe away in the very near future?

      There simply isn’t a significant profit motive to invest in an alternate mobile browser for iOS at this stage, just like there’s barely a profit motive to produce an alternate desktop browser; 90% of which are just chromium reskins not unlike webkit on iOS.

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  • gointhefridge@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You’re not wrong. That being said, I don’t hate Safari mobile, it’s pretty solid and has great compatibility. There’s something to be said for using the hardware most of the web if generally designed for.

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