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Android Options Mean "Best" Browsers Might Surprise You

Posted by timothy on from the an-actual-figurative-ecosystem dept.

An anonymous reader writes with this quote from Tom's Hardware: "Due to Apple's anti-3rd-party browser stance, and Windows RT's IE-only advantage on the 'Desktop,' Android is the only mobile platform where browser competition is thriving. The results are pretty surprising, with the long-time mobile browsers like Dolphin, Maxthon, Sleipnir, and the stock Android browser coming out ahead of desktop favorites like Firefox, Opera, and even Chrome. Dolphin, thanks to its new Jetpack HTML5 engine, soars ahead of the competition."

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  1. Hey, Apple has browser competition! by crazyjj · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There are plenty of other Safari skins available!

    But seriously, these walled gardens make me long for the 90's, when you could sanction a company for even *including* their own browser with an OS, much less outright forbidding other browsers from being installed.

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    1. Re:Hey, Apple has browser competition! by h4rr4r · · Score: 4, Insightful

      They are Apple's devices?
      I thought they sold them to people, not leased them. Am I mistaken?

    2. Re:Hey, Apple has browser competition! by DJRumpy · · Score: 4, Insightful

      A monopoly is not illegal. If you abuse a monopoly, thats when it becomes a legal matter. Microsoft threatened vendors when they wanted to put other browsers on their OEM builds and that's what made it illegal. just bundling your own browser is not illegal. Threatening to kill a vendors access to the market dominant OS if they put a competitors browser on is definitely illegal.

      Apple is not a monopoly, they are not doing anything illegal, and they can put whatever browser they choose on their devices. I agree with the parent. If you don't like it, don't buy it, and obviously many don't since Android is the dominant OS, no?

      The market health seems fine to me.

  2. Re:Just proving the point by ozmanjusri · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The XDA-like crowd is a pretty niche minority.

    But the people who want a choice of screen sizes, durability, features, looks and yes, even cost are a real majority. The price and popularity of Samsung's Galaxy models should tell you that the "cheap Android" slur is just FUD.

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  3. Re:Power, memory and bandwidth consumption matter by h4rr4r · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So it is for your own good, since you are too stupid to make your own decisions?

    What if I don't care about battery life? What if I really need a webpage to load correctly and not in a way safari does it?

    If they want to set the defaults that is fine, but to prevent me from doing at all unless I use their one true way is why I will never buy and iOS device.