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0 pointsdgellow4y ago0 comments

They are both bad.

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Phone OSes got/get away with it because they came out of the gate doing it. MS and Apple have been trying to convert their PC OSes into the same thing ever since. They're envious of Chrome OS. "Compatibility", "standards based" and "open platform" used to be badges of honor. In my opinion, MS and Google would be better off sticking to being open, because if everyone is forced to chose between walled gardens, Apple is going to beat them both every single time.

mook4y ago

I've been using Firefox as my browser on my Android phone for something like six or seven years now (I guess I'm weird). I don't recall any hard pushes to switch to Chrome. Using a non-Blink browser there is probably rare enough that making people switch isn't worth it.

The websites don't seem to want to support Firefox, so Google definitely isn't blameless, but we should probably at least blame them correctly.

kgwxd4y ago

Oh snap, I misread the original comment and went off on the wrong rant, they didn't even mention phones :/

I use FF on Android too. Android is better than others. I have Chrome disabled on my phone and there are some things that just won't open without it. It won't let me shut off the "Play Protect" nag every single time I install or update something from F-Droid. I've accidentally turned it on countless times. But it is the least worst of the mainstream mobile OSes.

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nojito4y ago

How so?

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kgwxd4y ago

mook4y ago

The websites don't seem to want to support Firefox, so Google definitely isn't blameless, but we should probably at least blame them correctly.

kgwxd4y ago

Oh snap, I misread the original comment and went off on the wrong rant, they didn't even mention phones :/

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nojito4y ago

How so?

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse