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You know, I hadn’t realized this before. Thanks to Apple’s decade-long policy, alternative browsers for iOS literally don’t exist, they’ll have to be ported. It will take years for that to happen, if anybody even bothers. Well, Google will.

And that’s how Apple will have managed to shoot themselves in the foot and have iOS fall under Chrome domination too.

At this point if they were smart they would sponsor the ports of alternative browsers that are not Chrome, but I doubt they have it in them.

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uranibaba@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
There is a new one, Orion. kagi.com/orion/

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- Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  WebKit, isnt it though?
  
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  - uranibaba@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I think so. As someone said, safari with another gui.
    
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    maccentric@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    It is, but it allows you to install many Firefox extensions. Not everything works, but it’s the best option out there I’ve found.
    
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helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

have iOS fall under Chrome domination too.

Huh? Chrome is just Apple’s WebKit.

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- AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Right. Like Apple’s webkit is just the reskinned KDE browser?
  
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  - OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    That was a longggg time ago. Also a good reason why you should chose GPL as your code license.
    
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    UnityDevice@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Khtml was licensed as LGPL.
    
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    AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    That was a longggg time ago.
    
    We will never forget!
    
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- lemmyvore@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  For now, but the EU will force Apple to allow non-WebKit engines on iOS. At which point only Google will have enough money to spare porting an entire engine to a small market.
  
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- db2@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  What year do you think it is right now?
  
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  - helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Is there a point you’d like to make?
    
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    db2@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    One could ask you the same thing and it would be a more appropriately directed question. Chrome hasn’t been WebKit for literally years.
    
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