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Microsoft now pops up a poll asking why you'd want to use another browser when you download Chrome (www.theverge.com)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I don't own an iPhone, but this seems like a totally fair criticism and I don't see any replies refuting it, so what's with all the downvotes? I swear to god this place is ridiculous sometimes, these people won't be happy until you jump through every hoop imaginable to use the Lemmy approved software. Only positive feedback allowed!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

because this is inherently Apple's fault and not Mozilla's.

Apple's the one forcing every browser on iOS to be a reskinned version of Safari. And it's perfectly understandable that Mozilla doesn't want to waste time and resources developing features for a Firefox-branded Safari when they could be working on their own browser.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What's your point? The dude gave a perfectly valid reason to not using Firefox, regardless of who's fault it is.

But also, how on earth would building a functional browser for a phone that owns 55% of the US market share be a waste of time and resources?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

it's a perfectly valid reason for not using Firefox, my point is that they're on the wrong platform. It's the user's own fault, because they chose a closed platform like iOS. Developing free software for iOS is a waste of time, since everything is under Apple's tyrannical rule and they get to decide which web engine you use, they can disallow extensions and make it very hard (and against their ToS) to sideload apps.

I don't like Mozilla at all, and that's why I use Firefox derivatives and not Firefox itself, but I'm glad they don't waste time developing for a re-skinned Safari. Those resources are best used in their own web engine.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago

these people won't be happy until you jump through every hoop imaginable to use the Lemmy approved software

and hardware apparently lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I am also confused. I didn't know phone browsers were a team sport, but here we are.