[as1992]

In my opinion, its based on the perception of the companies combined with the impact they have on the general consumer market. Eg 70% of phones run Android, only 27% run iOS which makes Google a much better target to go after.

Same situation with personal computing, Windows was like 80% of the consumer/business market when the whole browser thing took place. MacOS was something like 5%. Also I've never really heard of someone complain about Safari compared to IE/Edge so maybe there wasn't any traction for something like that

Maybe someone has a better/more accurate answer than that but thats just how I've been perceiving it.

[themacguffinman]

In the US the marketshare split is closer to 45-55, with iOS having the larger 55% share.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1045192/share-of-mobile-....

[throwntoday]

I believe in Japan it's closer to 90/10 with 90% being iOS. Depending on the country really the split is very much leaning towards iPhone.

And younger generation, sub-30, overwhelmingly prefer iPhone.

[toast0]

> Also I've never really heard of someone complain about Safari compared to IE/Edge so maybe there wasn't any traction for something like that.

Well, when Apple was letting other people ship hardware with their OS, I don't think they bundled a browser or restricted their hardware partners from bundling one. Also, in those days, Safari didn't exist. I think Apple may have bundled IE 5.5 for a while, but I'm not totally sure.

People do complain about Safari being the only browser engine on Mac. But on desktop, might as well have Safari so you can download something else without using the command line; which is also what IE/Edge is good for (especially since windows's ftp command line wasn't very good and ftp is mostly dead)

[jeroenhd]

Windows Explorer has had native FTP support forever now. All you need to do is point it at the Mozilla servers and you could get another browser without even opening up IE. Sure, it wasn't as fast as FileZilla, but it got the job done.