It’s not my job to think for you. I already explained this more than once. You have trouble understanding it, have someone else explain it to you.

You’ve let your metaphor run away from you. This isn’t even close to the actual situation at hand.

We got electric cars when all we had was the internal combustion engine. What a silly metaphor.

But it’s nice to hear you admit that I was right, and that the browser could definitely still be developed. The proof, of course, is that there are dozens of web browsers out there in active development.

That’s the exact argument you’re making: that X tools are the only way to develop a browser. Ignoring the entire world of other devices available.

That’s not holding back browser development, that’s just holding back browser usage.

That’s definitely not the same thing.

It’s not capitalism without exploitation.

Personally, I find Safari to be a goddamn amazing browser, especially considering a lot of its features. People here, the free and open source folk, absolutely hate it on the sole purpose that it is owned by a corporation. And, although it does share user data, anonymize’s that data to a great degree, and also prevents fingerprinting. Also, Apple does not sell it data that it collects, they only use it for internal purposes.

I find no problem with that. I think another huge issue is the difficulty in writing Safari extensions – – especially, that you have to pay for access to the developer store (although they may have changed that for Safari ext devs).

I’m a user experience, designer, so whenever gives the best experience to the end user is, obviously, the correct choice. There’s only so much the “experts” get to have a say in how any random individual uses the tools at the disposal.

That said, I absolutely love Safari as a web browser, but I definitely understand how a lot of people do not.

Although I may not have been as effective as seeing it, that’s pretty much what I was trying to say. Thank you, I suppose, for putting it into more understandable and relatable terms.

That is always the operative word. Except for those who don’t can’t and will never accept that that word exists.

Can’t disagree with you there

Nobody here is whining. I’m just surprised.

It’s OK if you understand that. No one will hate you for it, I promise.

I like it, myself, but not when it’s a major global multi billion dollar corporation doing it.

I suppose. One of my favorite games is from 1992 and called ultimate underworld.

It was a far superior game regarding storyline, plot, and gameplay.

But I’m not here to yuck anyone. Although that is quite literally what I did.

Only in that they are both particularly anti-competitive. Mobile Safari is, whatever all others may say, far better than chrome, and it’s a pretty awesome browser.

But it does have some limitations to it that a very vocal minority absolutely hates. And that’s fair, but let’s get real about what is “holding back” other browsers: market share in monopoly.

My iPhone 14 Pro has no AI and still works as wonderfully well as it did the first day I bought it. And I know that on iOS, you can simply disable the AI element.

But, yeah, the “promise of AI” was always bullshit.

There are people who still admit to playing World of Warcraft to other people?

Yikes

The market is “free” to fuck you and everyone you know on the ass.

Didn’t you know that’s what “free market“ means?

I haven’t thought about digg in 20 years. And I don’t intend to start now.

The score for Star Trek II: the wrath of khan is absolutely amazing