[taligent]

Hilarious on every point.

1. If the web browser is redundant then would would anyone make the effort to download Chrome. Nice self-contradiction here.

2. Safari in Mountain Lion has a single URL field with predictive search just like Chrome. So it could be an upcoming feature for iOS6 for all we now.

3. I fail to see what technology apart from maybe SPDY Google has "invented" that allows it to be so dramatically faster than Safari that it can compensate for the loss of JIT. Especially when benchmarks today show Chrome to be pretty slow.

4. Taking the top spot in the App Store is no big deal especially for free apps. There's been some incredibly stupid and pointless apps that have shared that position. Quick. Stop the press. The Talking Ted app is now number 1. Is there something profound to be said about humanity because of that ?

5. This is my favourite. Apple contributed the WebKit DOM inspector that Chrome has been using. And the new one in Safari now is much more "developer friendly" than Chrome.

[rrreese]

Regarding point one, if I understand correctly the author means that since most apps open in their own web view rather then opening safari directly the fact that chrome can't be integrated is less of a problem.

The browser is not redundant, as people start it when they want to browse to some random page.

For me I don't agree, I open safari from apps all the time, so lack of integration pretty much guarantees that I won't be using chrome.

[SquareWheel]

BrowserChanger by Ryan Petrich solves that last problem.

I'm assuming Hacker News readers are jailbroken.

[pooriaazimi]

Why should they be? I used to jailbreak, but Apple added almost every feature I needed and now it takes JBers 3-6 months to jailbreak the latest iOS, so I don't bother with jailbreak anymore and install iOS 6 the minute it comes out (and profit).

[SquareWheel]

Well, I think it's more reasons than just new features. It's the very idea of escaping the walled garden. You can disable the killswitch, you can install any tweak you please, or even develop your own. You don't even have a filesystem explorer unless you jailbreak, or a console.

The jailbreak tweaks are usually better than Apple's own implementations too, even from the beginning. Backgrounder is far more powerful than built in backgrounding. LockInfo is extensible and beautiful. Winterboard (and originally Summerboard) allow far greater control over theming than Apple allows. A quick settings pane like SBSettings, incredibly useful, and been there for years.

I can't imagine being without a jailbreak. My iPod Touch would be useless to me without.

[pooriaazimi]

Sorry if my poor phrasing made you to write this long response :) I almost completely agree with you, and what I wanted to say was "There's no inherent reason why all HN users should be jaibroken. Sure, they should know why it's probably good and how you can jailbreak you iDevice, but it doesn't mean they should all be jailbroken just for the heck of it".

And thanks for reminding (and torturing) me about SBSettings. Actually, that's the only thing I miss terribly from my JB days...

[ConstantineXVI]

I don't jailbreak/root anymore. If I've hit a point where $device isn't useful to me without fighting against the shipped OS, it's failed me and I'd rather find something more agreeable to my uses.

[codeka]

> Especially when benchmarks today show Chrome to be pretty slow

Do you mean Chrome on iOS or desktop? Which benchmarks are showing Chrome to be pretty slow?

[taligent]

For iOS where Safari is 4x faster:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jwherrman/the-problem-with-chrome-fo...