Comment by Apocryphon

2 years ago

I’ve never bothered with Chrome on Apple machines thanks to the iCloud Keychain. Surely there are other services that can create stickiness.

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bhaney  2 years ago

Apple published an official Chrome extension last year that integrates Chrome with iCloud Keychain. So that's one dump truck of dirt into their own moat.

  • Apocryphon  2 years ago

    Well, I would call that them giving up the ghost, but the ship sailed a long time ago to mix metaphors, when Apple canned Safari for Windows.

    Maybe this much ballyhooed trust in mobile Safari as the last bulwark against Chrome ubiquity is just an affectation of the HN set and not even something Apple cares about very much at all. Maybe you’ve all been placing your trust in a champion who’s uninterested in your fight.

    As for me, I’m glad that Orion is an alternative if I ever was to switch away from Safari.

    • fredski42  2 years ago

      Apple has warned about power usage when using other renderers than WebKit. Orion also mentions this as an advantage for them as they are using WebKit. Awesome browser if you are in Apple’s garden btw. Kagi also mentions that WebKit is developed by both Apple and FOSS community. I wonder how much of that holds..

      https://blog.kagi.com/orion-features