Safari

“So what we've done at Bitrig, we've actually like done some of what you guys have talked about in that article. We, you know, went server side with it. Now you can generate code on a server in a virtual machine, and you can display that in a pop-up, right? But…”

“I mean, now one of the interesting things in the ruling was that Google can no longer pay for the exclusive position Within things like Safari. So it can, can't be paid Apple to be the only thing, but it's allowed to pay for distribution.”

“Apple is like confirmed to be taking 36% of the revenue from Safari that Google makes.”

“They're going to have to share more data with rivals. They're going to lose the right to be Apple's exclusive search engine provider on Safari across its devices.”

“I think I saw this thing about Tim O'Reilly saying like, it's pretty obvious that like they stole all the proprietary information from Safari and like their books to like build it. And it's like, it's total. I'm sure it's true. We all know that they stole ever…”

“And I think that, like, plays to Google's advantage in the AI race that they have Chrome. Like, OpenAI doesn't have a browser that they can install this into, and Apple's certainly not, like, ahead in this race with Safari.”

“The court can't make Apple put a choice screen in Safari. Like, Apple isn't in court. Like, they haven't been convicted of anything.”

“Steve Jobs himself had decided how he would judge our browser as a product. The focus would be on one thing, speed. Steve wanted our browser to be fast, to be really fast, much faster than Microsoft Internet Explorer, which is the product that we aim to replac…”

“Outside of the prescribed five, You can't change the search engine on Safari to anything else, even today.”

“Today, Google pays Apple, fifteen billion dollars a year to be the default Search engine on iPhones on the Safari browser.”

“And so Google is paying something like fifteen billion dollars to be the default search engine in Mozilla and Safari and whatever else is out there, basically Mozilla and Safari.”

“The very first Safari had private windows. It had a third party cookie blocker. Neither of these things were in Firefox at the time. Private windows came in quickly. We never shipped a third party cookie blocker in my time there.”

“Apple has been blocking third-party cookies entirely in Safari by default, and now Google has said from next year they're going to do that as well.”

“And looking at that, it really just came down to Conqueror was one-tenth the size of Mozilla.”

“Ok team, if we check in code, and it doesn't make any speed regression, only two things can happen. Either the code will remain the same speed, or it'll get faster.”

“And eventually Safari, as when it was released, it was three times faster than MSIE at loading web pages.”

“Basically what he found was Chrome and Firefox users were on average getting in call center jobs to customer satisfaction rates in 90 days that took Internet Explorer and Safari users a 120 days to reach. And the Chrome and Firefox users also stuck around 15% …”

“In some ways Facebook is the new browser, it's the new RSS reader, and it's the new ad blocker all combined into one, And what's happening in Safari with plugins is a sideshow.”