European iPhone owners are being shown a new pop-up screen listing alternatives to the Safari browser. The developers of the browsers shown on that screen are torn about the user experience.
  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    30·
    7 months ago

    When it was forced to add a search engine default selector to Android in 2019, many of the developers behind alternative options initially criticized the design and denounced Google’s practice of selling slots on the screen through auctions.

    Naked corruption.

    Also, if your users need a web browser defined in 2024, I’m sorry that your users are fucking morons and old people. The old people will die soon and then you’ll only have the morons left.

    • nix@midwest.socialEnglish
      9·
      7 months ago

      You need to meet more young people they don’t know either specifically because companies like google and apple try to obscure competition by making their way seem like the only way.

      • Scolding0513@sh.itjust.works
        6·
        7 months ago

        he’s referring to the fact that a web browser is a 30 year old technology and there are apparently people still dont know what it is

        • umami_wasabi@lemmy.ml
          4·
          7 months ago

          That I’m not surprised. Look how many companies are shoving apps down our throat while treating web browser users as second class citizens. My sister (21-30 age group) only know to use the “Google app” to search the web on her iPhone while Safari is pinned at the bottom and rarey uses it.

          • Scolding0513@sh.itjust.works
            6·
            7 months ago

            the reason is that corps can harvest massively more data with an application installed directly in your OS, rather than trying to stay within the security confines of the browser sandbox

    • Moonrise2473@lemmy.ml
      2·
      7 months ago

      The average people don’t know the concept of browser. I saw people using Google search (the app) as a browser. I saw people trying to login in their webmail using Google search (the app), then in order to see what photo they wanted to upload they went back to home by closing the WebView, watching the photo, then using again the Google search app to login in their webmail. Extremely infuriating, I wanted to die.

      • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
        1·
        7 months ago

        Jfc. I don’t have much exposure to people younger than me using technology. Family (nieces and nephew) live in another state, so I don’t watch them use phones and tablets. I wonder if my adult niece (who’s very bright) is doing things this way and I just wasn’t aware. Fuck me. I thought we’d be past this by now.

  • katy ✨
    18·
    7 months ago

    i do wish google would go back to the pre-2010 google, but i still can’t imagine using anything but android. everything about apple/iphone just seems infuriating to use.

    • TheFriar@lemm.ee
      6·
      7 months ago

      I’m no fan of apple as a company, but I used android phones for a long time. Mostly because I didn’t want to jump on the apple train. But once I changed jobs and needed to be on my phone a lot more often, I switched to apple for the battery life. I was stuck carrying around an external battery with my android phones. Also, the longevity of the hardware. I’m still on an old iPhone and it still mostly looks and still operates as if it were a more current gen. I always buy used, and I would go through an android phone every year to two years or so. I changed to an apple phone about four years ago and I still have the same one.

      I get it, the weird thing I only recently learned about iMessage being some status symbol for teenagers or whatever? That’s fuckin dumb. But there are reasons beyond stupid ones to use apple stuff. Fuck the company, though. I mean…fuck Samsung. And google. Fuck pretty much all companies. But brand loyalty for anything other than fitting your requirements in the product is weird.

        • TheFriar@lemm.ee
          5·
          7 months ago

          Um. I dunno what to tell you. I went through two android phones when I started the job. This was back when the screens were only really big. So maybe that was contributing more. But I couldn’t make it though half of the day before both android phones were dying. I can tell you as a person who exclusively used android phones since I had a smart phone (with one, maybe two exceptions I got as hand-me-downs), I’ve never felt any sort of “social pressure” to switch to an iPhone. This is an entirely new concept, because smart phones came out the year I graduated high school, pretty much. And I had never experienced it. Ever.

          So are you sure this is a real thing? Not just one of those internet things that people swear they heard someone else say they knew someone who experienced it? Because I’ve been there for pretty much the whole thing. But maybe I aged out of that kind of stupid status shit and this only happens to kids in high school. Because I truly can’t imagine it happening anywhere else. Though I’ve never worked in an office setting, adults acting like clique-y it’s schoolers seem to flock to office spaces, so maybe that’s another reason why I’ve never had this happen to me.

          Either way, don’t tell me why I got an iPhone. Who tf are you

      • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
        3·
        7 months ago

        The battery life difference pretty much went away several Android versions ago (also when hardware improved).

        But, yea, that’s partly why my work phone is an iPhone. I can’t use it for anything but work stuff, and it’s managed by them anyway, so no benefit to using Android for work.

        It “just works” for the fundamentals…and that’s what many people want.

    • Zerush@lemmy.mlOP
      6·
      7 months ago

      There isn’t a paywall, only a subscription banner which you can close.

      • akrz@programming.dev
        3·
        7 months ago

        true; thanks! on my phone it took up most of the page and i just quickly assumed it was a paywall…