Comments on: This Can Be Big: Apple Allows 3rd Party Web Browsers into App Store http://www.favbrowser.com/this-can-be-big-apple-allows-3rd-party-web-browsers-into-app-store/ Web Browser News and Reviews. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:39:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: xErath http://www.favbrowser.com/this-can-be-big-apple-allows-3rd-party-web-browsers-into-app-store/#comment-43727 xErath Thu, 15 Jan 2009 02:10:08 +0000 http://www.favbrowser.com/?p=863#comment-43727 Those are not 3rd party webbrowser. Those are 3rd party UIs over webkits rendering engine. So, no Opera nor Mozilla, ever. (Mozilla wouldn't run on the iPhone anyway). Those are not 3rd party webbrowser. Those are 3rd party UIs over webkits rendering engine. So, no Opera nor Mozilla, ever. (Mozilla wouldn’t run on the iPhone anyway).

]]> By: Mol10 http://www.favbrowser.com/this-can-be-big-apple-allows-3rd-party-web-browsers-into-app-store/#comment-43692 Mol10 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:59:19 +0000 http://www.favbrowser.com/?p=863#comment-43692 I think the optimism is a bit too early. At least based on the descriptions and screenshots, the linked new "browsers" are more likely some kind of Safari extensions, or - at most - a custom shell for Safari's rendering engine. (Just like Maxthon, which is a third-party shell for the IE rendering engine.) So until I see a real third party browser with its own engine, and hear of changes in Apple's terms for third party software, I won't consider the iPhone anything other than a walled garden. But even if that happens (that I doubt), it would still be one of the most restricted smartphone platforms. So that alone wouldn't stop me telling people: Stay away from Apple if you want freedom. I think the optimism is a bit too early. At least based on the descriptions and screenshots, the linked new “browsers” are more likely some kind of Safari extensions, or – at most – a custom shell for Safari’s rendering engine. (Just like Maxthon, which is a third-party shell for the IE rendering engine.)

So until I see a real third party browser with its own engine, and hear of changes in Apple’s terms for third party software, I won’t consider the iPhone anything other than a walled garden.

But even if that happens (that I doubt), it would still be one of the most restricted smartphone platforms. So that alone wouldn’t stop me telling people: Stay away from Apple if you want freedom.

]]> By: Foo http://www.favbrowser.com/this-can-be-big-apple-allows-3rd-party-web-browsers-into-app-store/#comment-43684 Foo Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:23:05 +0000 http://www.favbrowser.com/?p=863#comment-43684 "Still, Apple appears to be loosening some early restrictions they had applied to the App Store approval process." Not really... http://robert.accettura.com/blog/2009/01/14/3rd-party-web-browsers-for-iphone/ “Still, Apple appears to be loosening some early restrictions they had applied to the App Store approval process.”
Not really…
http://robert.accettura.com/blog/2009/01/14/3rd-party-web-browsers-for-iphone/

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