[sgt]

Also not supported in Safari. That's fine, I wasn't going to use Skype anyway.

[sodosopa]

That’s a larger problem since Safari has a larger userbase. Mozilla is generally at 5% Safari has been at 7-8%. Collectively, Microsoft is fine with losing potentially 12%

[vetinari]

On desktops, it is ~9,5% for Firefox and ~5% for Safari (4,5% for Edge). On mobile, I would rather use native app than web one. On desktop, the "native" app is Electron anyway.

[gmueckl]

At least the native app for Linux comes with a few shared libraries in addition to Electron. So it's not JavaScript all the way down like the website has to be.

[Doctor_Fegg]

Though frankly I'm fed up with installing yet another mobile app for whatever conferencing system someone wants to use today.

[hypfer]

Yeah but to support safari, you need a way to test your web application with it.

The only way to do that is to buy a Mac. That's why a lot of sites don't support it.

[sgt]

I think Microsoft can afford it. I heard at some point they were Apple's largest corporate client for Macintoshes.

[agloeregrets]

Browserstack.com

Also 50% of the US mobile browser market. (Don’t forget iPhone and iPad.)

This is a bs excuse. The only really hard one to test with is IE11, simply because the dev tools are so incredibly slow on a web app.

[sodosopa]

That’s actually incorrect. I used Browserstack for testing our web apps. Why buy a Mac when you could basically rent one for your browser testing. We script it out and test out pre-prod web apps.

[mcv]

They don't just lose that 12%, but also the people they want to talk to.

[The_rationalist]

12% for Firefox marketshare? Source? Last time I checked it was ~4.4% (desktop + mobile)

[chrismeller]

Those are desktop and mobile numbers. Per [1] it’s more like 9 and 3% on desktop, which is really the only place you’d be doing this.

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers