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"A conspiracy to modify Windows so Netscape-rendered content would appear "degraded""

This sounds like what Apple is doing right now and everyone keeps defending it when it actual fact it's even worse.

Degraded non safari web browser performance on iOS ring a bell?

Apple also constantly prompts me to use their browser instead of the one I like, despite the fact that I've expressed my preference hundreds of times over the years.

Chrome does the same thing on Android. These days I prefer Safari because Google thinks it's ok to show me ads and news items based on my searches for medical issues.

Android asks you if you want to switch to Chrome when you open Firefox?

No. It asks you at first whether you want to use chrome, firefox or any other browser installed. You can choose an option once or always.

That sounds reasonable. What macOS does is from time to time it uses the notification system to ask you if you would care to switch to Safari, the choices being "now" or "later", there is no choice such as "never".

Strange, i've used macOS and Chrome for more than ten years now and can't remember ever seeing that.

https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/how-to-osx-try-safari-promotion....

A bit off topic bit it reminds me a bit of one of Louis Rossman's recent videos. Apple hampers the ability for independent repair shops to get parts, making the repair shop look degraded compared to Apple.

I recently learned that Chrome on iOS is actually Safari in a Chrome shell.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11259152/chrome-ios-is-i...

>> This sounds like what Apple is doing right now and everyone keeps defending it when it actual fact it's even worse

What is it exactly that Apple is doing that you are referring to (I honestly don’t know)?

Preventing third party jit, thus forcing chrome and firefox and other non-safari browsers to use webkit for their implementations.

The Safari web browser on mobile runs better than if you ran it embedded in an app. And also you can't run any other browser engine in an app.

There is no non-Safari on iOS, because Chrome is woefully inefficient. AAPL has no other choice here.

What?

> This sounds like what Apple is doing right now

I believe Apple rectified the third party browser performance issue in the 2015 revision of WKWebView

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/01/new-chrome-for-ios-i...

That would allow a company to equal the speed of safari, not surpass it.

Also like the thing that pushed the Edge team to switch to Blink.

Sorry, how is that related?

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