My bloviated meandering follows what A Williams graced us with on
3/11/2013 9:39 AM:
Sailfish wrote:
REF:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-14013_3-57573440/mozilla-says-no-plans-to-return-to-ios/
[excerpt quote=\"
Sullivan and Opera Software's Mike Taylor, also on the panel, shared the
same viewpoint. They all argued that giving consumers browser choice was
essential to making browsers, and the Web in general, great.
And, Sullivan argued, Apple's closed environment means users suffer.
It's a viewpoint that the general public might not share. Rosenblatt
queried the audience to find out how many people were iOS users, and a
majority of hands went up. By contrast, when he asked how many of them
were suffering, just a few hands surfaced.
\" /]
The questioned not asked is how many of the iOS users were using
non-Safari and non-Chrome browsers. My guess is that even fewer would
raise their hand which, I suspect, is a big reason Mozilla has decided
not to waste resources just becoming another Apple webkit clone.
Mucrosoft have just been told to pay the best part of a Zillion dollars
to the EU for violating a previous agreement to offer users a choice of
browsers. They implemented it for XP and then forgot (?) for Win7. I
never saw the point in it the way it was implemented and just installed
Seamonkey anyway.
The only thing preventing Apple from running into this problem is that
people who don't want that closed environment just avoid getting
anything from that company. Windows was so ubiquitous, it was almost
impossible to avoid. MS were also re-interpreting interoperability
standards whenever they felt like it, Apple are not big enough to do
that either (??).
My bad, I posted this in the wrong newsgroup and had since reposted it
in mozilla.general.
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