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by dafrankenstein2 3180 days ago
"The app/OS identifier is chosen so that it does not contain the string “Edge.” This is to avoid triggering any existing UA detection logic that might accidentally decide that these browsers are Microsoft Edge for Windows 10, resulting in a desktop site or something equally confusing."

So this is the reason behind "EdgiOS" and "EdgA"

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When will this hell end
when web developers stop relying on user agent strings and start doing feature detection instead.