Comment by trothamel
2 years ago
That hasn't been the case with Safari in a long time, has it? And of course, users can't switch to a browser they believe works better.
2 years ago
That hasn't been the case with Safari in a long time, has it? And of course, users can't switch to a browser they believe works better.
I doubt that a regular user has any opinion on whether Safari "just works". Some developers care about Safari vs Chrome vs Firefox browser engine features, but the average end user at most is just going to think some website sucks if it doesn't work. (And, personally, I don't see any problems in day to day usage, so I doubt it comes up much to those less technical than myself.)
To the extent that they care, they seem satisfied by being able to switch to other iOS browsers that under the hood use the WebKit engine, but give them the ecosystem-integration with their desktop browser that they want. Shared Chrome bookmarks and tabs matter 1000x more to a random user than details of browser engines.