I don’t expect most iPhone users to ever change their default settings, but it’s nice that it will be possible in a year.

Who knows, maybe one day you can run actual Firefox on them too? :p

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You know, I hadn’t realized this before. Thanks to Apple’s decade-long policy, alternative browsers for iOS literally don’t exist, they’ll have to be ported. It will take years for that to happen, if anybody even bothers. Well, Google will.

And that’s how Apple will have managed to shoot themselves in the foot and have iOS fall under Chrome domination too.

At this point if they were smart they would sponsor the ports of alternative browsers that are not Chrome, but I doubt they have it in them.

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There is a new one, Orion. https://kagi.com/orion/

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WebKit, isnt it though?

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I think so. As someone said, safari with another gui.

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Right. Like Apple’s webkit is just the reskinned KDE browser?

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That was a longggg time ago. Also a good reason why you should chose GPL as your code license.

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For now, but the EU will force Apple to allow non-WebKit engines on iOS. At which point only Google will have enough money to spare porting an entire engine to a small market.

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What year do you think it is right now?

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