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To avoid regulation, Apple said it had three Safari browsers (www.theregister.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 98 points 9 months ago (53 children)

Fuck apple. I love that the EU is constantly forcing them to be less shitty. And apple no doubt is super pissed. Being shitty is their business model

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 9 months ago (2 children)

What a dumb (and weak) argument…

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Lawyers gonna lawyer

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Apples are naturally seedy

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Gotta use what you have.

I guess lawyers salary often can be considered compensation for suffering through the bullshit their clients send them through.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 9 months ago (1 children)

From a coding perspective, they are all quite distinct. However, I don't doubt they were using that argument just to weasel out of getting regulated

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I would argue that iPadOS Safari and iOS Safari are not really that different though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

from a coding perspective

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That’s what I mean, would you say iPadOS Safari and iOS Safari don’t share a good chunk of their codebase?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

The vast majority of the code is WebKit, which is the same across platforms. The UI is a small amount of code compared to WebKit, and even then I’m sure there is a lot of sharing between the iOS and iPadOS versions.