Android doesn't have any such restrictions so Firefox on Android are able to use their Gecko engine.
A mobile browser is a completely different Application then a Desktop browser so you're still going to be using a different "Browser" Application, so I guess I don't understand why my choice for using the built-in Safari on iOS would impact which Desktop browser I'd choose to use?
Because you're not clear on what exactly your grievances are with Vivalidi/Brave/Opera using the Blink rendering engine and how exactly does using Safari on iOS or Firefox on Android enforce Google data collection?
> It's not just about Chrome. Decoupling Google services from Chromium is more than about Chrome itself, it's a backlash against Google and data collection at large.
You need to read up on what Chromium is, its an Open Source Chromium browser Chrome is built on without Google Services (i.e. what Chrome is). A large differentiator for Vivaldi and Brave is their privacy first browsers that don't track you:
https://vivaldi.com/features/privacy-security/
> You could just promote Firefox instead of Vivaldi, but you didn't. Why not?
Because the whole premise of the article is for making a modified Chromium browser fork, when they could instead use one of the existing actively developed Chromium browsers founded by browser engineers. I have no issue with Firefox which I use as my secondary browser, but the replacement for my main browser Chrome would need to be another Blink-based browser.
But I still have no idea what the rendering engine used in Mobile browsers has to do with anything.
What kind of problem? It makes web browsing stable as the internal engine is tested by Apple without third party bringing their own with updates at random moments and from web developer's perspective, they get a predictable result within iOS without effort and from those, I don't see a problem from users' perspective too.
Maybe you work for Mozilla.
> Maybe you work for Mozilla.
Maybe you're a lazy web developer.
The only thing I miss on iPhone is Gecko. I often run into website that doesn't render properly in Safari and at that point I want to have an alternative rendering engine that would solve the problem. Currently I have to find a desktop computer for it.
This has become such a problem lately, because some of the websites I often use and need to get important information from have this issue, so I always have to be sure that I'll have desktop computer around or carry an Android tablet with me.
Next time I buy a phone, it will be Android unless Apple changes their policy on browser rendering engine. If I knew this worked the way it works, I would have never bought the iPhone in the first place.
Anyone remember the 1980s Apple commercial referencing Big Brother? Hilarious in hindsight.
Interesting. Isn't that what Microsoft was tried and convicted for in the 90s?
No, Microsoft was tried and convicted for illegally leveraging an existing monopoly.
The particular actions weren't necessarily illegal outside of the context of a pre-existing monopoly.