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by crabasa
3735 days ago
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> First, Apple sells hardware If you think that consumers are purchasing iPhones so that they can rock out on Safari and Mail, you are mistaken. A year ago over the App Store hit 100B cumulative app downloads: http://www.statista.com/graphic/1/263794/number-of-downloads... Native apps drive hardware purchase decisions for consumers. That's the lesson of Windows Phone. > Safari's engine is what Chrome has been based on, and for most of its life it has been one and the same codebase. You misunderstand how a browser is constructed. Browsers are much more than just a rendering engine like Webkit. Chrome and Safari have different JavaScript engines, support different web standards (no WebRTC for Safari!) and are architected in completely different ways. You might find this a helpful place to start: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/04/does-w... |
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