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Through gritted teeth, Apple and Google allow alternative app stores in Japan (www.theregister.com)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[+] -11 points 10 months ago (8 children)
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  • [–] 54 points 10 months ago* (3 children)

    I wouldn’t call them different browsers, more like skins or “chrome”. All iOS browsers are built on Apple WebKit. This essentially makes all of them reskinned versions of Safari.

    Sure they may have some clever UI, accessibility, or platform specific functionality. But they are nothing like any of those browsers on other operating systems.

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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    They still all use the safari engine though, unless something has changed and I missed it.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    No, and it’s annoying because Safari’s extensions I’ll let you install ad blockers, but they won’t work on Firefox even though it’s still Safari

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