To be fair to most people who use phones, I don’t think they understand what a browsing engine is, let alone a browser half the time. I got my family to use Firefox, and they don’t know it’s a browser either.
Depends where you. In some places (I think it was Japan?) Apples practice of not allowing alternative browser engines was deemed anticompetitive and outlawed
On Android or iOS? I’m pretty sure the iOS app is just a re-skinned Safari, isn’t it?
It is!? Noooooooo! TIL
All iOS browsers are webkit under the hood (aka “reskinned safari”)
Yep. It’s a choice Apple users make[1] when they choose Apple.
probably unknowingly, to be fair ↩︎
To be fair to most people who use phones, I don’t think they understand what a browsing engine is, let alone a browser half the time. I got my family to use Firefox, and they don’t know it’s a browser either.
Depends where you. In some places (I think it was Japan?) Apples practice of not allowing alternative browser engines was deemed anticompetitive and outlawed
Same in Europe but I don’t think Mozilla spent the time and effort needed to bring Gecko to iOS. So it’s still just a reskinned WebKit.