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Apple is finally allowing Firefox to use its own engine on the iPhone (but only in the EU)
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this post was submitted on 25 Jan 2024
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I think it will be an interesting experiment to see the impact of allowing other rendering engines. If the sky doesn’t fall, Apple doesn’t have a lot to argue with.
Safari will still have more than 90% of the market share in iOS. Most Apple users don't care or are fully unaware of this.
Google will shove Chrome ads everywhere and get some users.
True. But that’s irrelevant to my curiosity.
Most iPhone users use Chrome even tough it's just Safari but from Google. Google will just update the EU version to use Chromium and the in users will notice nothing.
Most iPhone users definitely don't use chrome