Apple: Switch to Safari (From Chrome)(apple.com) |
Apple: Switch to Safari (From Chrome)(apple.com) |
“Just use pi-hole” well sometimes I leave my house so that is an insufficient option.
It’s stupid, I know. But sometimes people like cars with a different colour of paint. Chrome has had this since maybe 2009?
Thanks, but I've already upgraded to Firefox.
There’s a funny history where the original iPhone apps could only be web apps as there was no SDK! See history section at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_SDK
Yes, you can clear a cache for a one time update, but that is hardly helpful.
also annoying when working locally as the favicon persists amongst different projects using the same port on localhost.
it's the same as their switch from Windows to Mac advertisement from the early 2000s
Although I do not know if they have done anything like this since that until today
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stranger; strangest
a : different from what is usual, ordinary, or expected : odd
Now on desktop, use Firefox and uBlock origin.
You’d be surprised! https://www.apple.com/iphone/switch/
Reader mode and hide distracting items are phenomenal, use them both daily.
And to iPhone: https://www.apple.com/iphone/switch/
I can't count on two hands the amount of times I 'solved' technical issues for friends and family by having them do a certain process (like a booking) on chrome instead of safari.
> we really want your data
this is a projection
1. It is not multi-platform. A browser that isn't available for Windows, Linux, xBSD is not a browser I would use or recommend to others.
2. I don't want "Intelligent Tracking Prevention" or some limited Apple curated lists of content blockers - uBlock Origin should be fully functional in it.
3. No requirement of an "App Store" to install browser extensions.
4. No built-in AI bullshit. Rather make certain browser APIs open so that any other AI tools can use and manipulate it as the user wants.
5. Fully open source (in Safari, only Webkit is open source).
If you remember, those were the days when Windows software were kind of "bland" looking and Apple OS and software was "Shiny" with their brushed aluminium looks and glassy UI widgets (see screenshot here - https://jimmyg.org/blog/2007/safari-3-beta-for-windows.html ). So when Apple released Safari on Windows, it was more or less a clone of their Mac version with the "Aqua" skin. It really stood out in the Windows world and thus did become popular, briefly, in the Windows world due to this. Unfortunately because it was clone of the Mac version, it also retained the same UI quirks particular to Mac software like not having proper right-clicks (where Windows users expected) and some other UI interactions aspects that were different to Windows. Now, my friend who was using Safari because he loved the Mac-look of Safari, felt frustrated that it didn't conform to the expected Windows UI interactions norms. So he wrote a strongly worded email to Apple Support where in he told them that as a Windows user he was frustrated in using the Safari browser and he expected Apple to build software that complied with Windows usability norms. (What he wanted was a Safari with the UI skin of the Mac Safari version, but with UI interactions that conformed to Windows norms). [My friend claims] Steve Jobs' Apple being what they were then, took his complaints seriously and completely re-designed Apple Safari for Windows with native windows UI (Apple Safari 4 and later). But Apple Safari, as a Windows software, without the Mac skin, looked just as bland as any other browser (and it didn't really have any other great features to distinguish it from the other browsers of that time). They thus lost their USP which had attracted their initial userbase, and as it kept shrinking Apple abandoned it. My friend still regrets the tone of the email and not communicating properly about what frustrated him about Safari on Windows ...
But if you're not inclined to educated yourself via the tremendous resource I shared, I suppose you could look at
https://wpt.fyi to see how far behind safari lags in supporting features.
There's also the fact that a proof of concept port of Microsoft edge to IOS significantly outperformed safari.
https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/06/17/apples-webki...
Chrome is also not the only chromium browser. There's also Vivaldi, brave etc, which make up for some of the ad-related shortcomings of Chrome. I happily use Vivaldi.
And many years ago they had a huge Mac vs Windows campaign! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_a_Mac
CTRL+F on the page shows that "Android" is only written once (!) and there is no logo or anything. It's as generic and indirect as it can be.
>And many years ago they had a huge Mac vs Windows campaign!
Exactly, many years ago, and then they stopped, which makes this unusual by definition