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Is Chrome the New IE? (2023)

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284 points bentocorp | 3 comments | 17 Nov 24 22:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.634s | source
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refulgentis ◴[18 Nov 24 02:44 UTC] No.42169282[source]▶
Safari. I assumed this was overblown until I had the rich experience of developing a Flutter app that needed to work on every platform. Somehow, even Androids chaos is notably better to work with.
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torlok ◴[18 Nov 24 03:32 UTC] No.42169498[source]▶
A Google product didn't work right on iOS? Shocking.
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nerdix ◴[18 Nov 24 04:09 UTC] No.42169641[source]▶
Google typically goes out of its way to make its products work on iOS while the same can't be said in reverse.
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1. pirates ◴[18 Nov 24 08:21 UTC] No.42170705[source]▶
Intentionally restricting apps from using core features of the OS with a paywall is making its products work?
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2. nerdix ◴[19 Nov 24 01:36 UTC] No.42179300[source]▶
I'm not sure which product(s) you're referring to.

Apple has like 6 apps in the Play Store and one of them is for helping Android users migrate to iOS. On the other hand, Google has dozens of apps in the App Store.

And Flutter Web not working on iOS doesn't even help Google. If anything it just hurts Flutter's adoption on the web which is already low. So I don't think there is some grand conspiracy within Google to take out Safari by withholding Flutter support.

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3. refulgentis ◴[19 Nov 24 05:19 UTC] No.42180288[source]▶
They sort of gave up halfway through lazily invoking the NPC bog-standard Google-on-iOS complaint: you need to pay for YouTube Premium to watch videos picture in picture over other apps.

(source: iOS dev turned Googler turned ex-Googler, so I soak in everyone's grudge matches :) )