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You're ignoring the obvious fact that you can use other browsers. There's no need to use Safari.

Also people choose Apple products for a variety of reasons that might trump their browsing preferences. It's still fair for them to want to improve their browsing experience.

You're trying to call out "Apple fanboys" but all you're doing is showing the biases of your limiting beliefs.

The 'other browsers' on iOS are just a slightly neutered Safari rendering engine underneath. Firefox on iOS doesn't use the actual Firefox rendering engine, so you can't install extensions on it. On Android, I use actual Firefox and run full-fat uBlock Origin on it to block ads, just like I can on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

While it is true the rendering engine is the same. The functionality is different. I have 5 browsers installed on iOS. They are not the same. - Brave. Has native adblocking - Orion. Supports extensions from firefox and chrome extension store (not perfect compatibility, but still quite amazing). - DuckDuckGo Browser. Offers nice privacy features. - Firefox. Allows to sync tabs with desktop. - Edge. IIRC I installed this when LLMs were early and it had built in bing chat for free llm chatting.

So while the rendering engine is the same, that is one of the least interesting things.

That said, I'm all for removing this requirement.

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