> Apple is now the worst offender in forcing you to use your computing the device only the way they want you to.
This is wrong. Google is the worst offender; Apple is an under-appreciated hero.
I have to use some web pages- for taxes and public services, for my banks and so on.
Those pages don’t work in Firefox and the only reason they work in Safari is because people don’t have a choice on Apple devices.
Of course they have a choice: they could just have bought a google phone, but I have worked in ads long enough to know I want to stay as far away from Google as I can, and I cannot tell you how sad this makes me to see my choice being threatened just so you could use chrome if you “wanted” to.
> How the issue you're raising has anything to do with Google?
Because Google benefits from this and not me.
I think you would have to be stupidly naive to believe this legislative lobby happened without their help.
> Google hasn't forced those devs to not care about Firefox.
The only people who know that are Google and those devs, not me and not you.
But Apple did force those devs to care about Safari, and the things that work in both Safari and Chrome usually work in Firefox, so if you care at all about browser choice, you should be very afraid of this: As soon as my bank can tell me to install Chrome in order to pay my bills instead of doing any more work supporting Safari (and by extension Firefox), you better believe they will.
This is wrong. Google is the worst offender; Apple is an under-appreciated hero.
I have to use some web pages- for taxes and public services, for my banks and so on.
Those pages don’t work in Firefox and the only reason they work in Safari is because people don’t have a choice on Apple devices.
Of course they have a choice: they could just have bought a google phone, but I have worked in ads long enough to know I want to stay as far away from Google as I can, and I cannot tell you how sad this makes me to see my choice being threatened just so you could use chrome if you “wanted” to.