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iPhones in the EU get ability to set more default apps, delete more built-in ones (m.gsmarena.com)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I don't expect most iPhone users to ever change their default settings, but it's nice that it will be possible in a year.

Who knows, maybe one day you can run actual Firefox on them too? :p

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 5 months ago (21 children)

Who knows, maybe one day you can run actual Firefox on them too? :p

You could, in the EU. But as the EU is only a small portion of the market (Apple did not succeed as much with brainwashing here), Mozilla said it would be too costly to literally recreate FF from scratch for iOS, only for the EU market.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago (16 children)

You know, I hadn't realized this before. Thanks to Apple's decade-long policy, alternative browsers for iOS literally don't exist, they'll have to be ported. It will take years for that to happen, if anybody even bothers. Well, Google will.

And that's how Apple will have managed to shoot themselves in the foot and have iOS fall under Chrome domination too.

At this point if they were smart they would sponsor the ports of alternative browsers that are not Chrome, but I doubt they have it in them.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (3 children)

There is a new one, Orion. https://kagi.com/orion/

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

WebKit, isnt it though?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think so. As someone said, safari with another gui.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

It is, but it allows you to install many Firefox extensions. Not everything works, but it’s the best option out there I’ve found.

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