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Wow... over 35 years of misery. You couldn't find a field you enjoyed more than 5% of the time? That's so sad...
For those bashing Edge, realise Chrome on Windows is awful with battery and the scrolling is stuttery with a Precision Trackpad. Edge is much smoother. Good news for me.
I've seen this in action on a colleagues Dell XPS laptop that our company manages. Chrome is just awful for scrolling, Edge is silky smooth. That said, Windows laptop trackpads are all still a million years behind what you get in a MacBook.
All this Microsoft bashingis the same level of stupid as Apple bashing on non-Apple sites.
I use Safari on my Mac and my iPhone and it works for me. If someone likes Edge on their Windows PC and wants a seamless experience with Edge on his iOS device who am I to **** on that?
Might be your phones problem. Been trying out Edge for half an hour now on my pretty slow iPhone 6 and it works without any issues.
I use Safari on my Mac and my iPhone and it works for me. If someone likes Edge on their Windows PC and wants a seamless experience with Edge on his iOS device who am I to **** on that?
Might be your phones problem. Been trying out Edge for half an hour now on my pretty slow iPhone 6 and it works without any issues.
More likely its a problem with the user. Since Edge uses Safari web view like every other browser on iOS I'd expect the user is making things up. If they are talking about Edge on Windows 10 I'll also say they're making things up. Edge works just fine.
I think you can say a lot of things about Windows vs MacOS, but I have to say though, that in my experience, you are in a clear minority who says Windows trumps MacOS when it comes to support, bugs and general limitations.
Also, I think saying Windows has 95% of all laptops is a bit incorrect. First of all, MacBooks has been having around steadily 10% sales last couple of years in the US and 7% globally. Also, all these survey conveniently leave out Chromebooks as they aren't considered laptops (just because they run a different operating system). Solid numbers are hard to find, but there's at least some numbers that they are outselling MacBooks. So that's another 7-10% that's not Windows.
Windows is dominant, no doubt, but their not as dominant as they used to be. Not even Microsoft pretends that.
People would use it for the data syncing the same as people using an iMac might use Safari across all devices. My wife uses Chrome on her iPad but doesn’t use any syncing or bookmarks. I’ve given up on explaining why it doesn’t matter.
In the past I’d use Opera because of the proxy and data compression. I’ve used Brave a few times just to see what it offers.
In the past I’d use Opera because of the proxy and data compression. I’ve used Brave a few times just to see what it offers.
It’s better than Chrome on PC. Not sure what you’ve been using, but it isn’t Edge. Asinine statements galore here...
No its not, by a long shot. I use both IE, Chrome and avoid Edge with a 10 foot pole
Yes, most of them by a significant margin.
because someone using an iPad with their Windows PC may want to take advantage of features like "continue on PC". Unlike Apple, Microsoft has gotten over itself and is building heterogeneous solutions rather than single vendor ones. Edge is pretty good for battery life on laptops, and I usually use it when I'm on battery and browsing. My daily browser however is Firefox.
What’s the reason of its existence on iOS when It couldn’t download chrome. Let alone, Safari’s already great
I tried Edge on iPad and find the bookmark manager very difficult to use. Thankfully I am using Bookmark OS
First off, I never stated a random percentage and claimed it as the market share, you must have forgotten to quote someone else. I am pretty sure there is a reason why Microsoft has a lock on the computer market share compared to Apple, and why the majority of consumers also pick Windows as their OS. This is the case for consumers and we have seen a huge shift over several years for professional creators moving to windows. Mac OS has some of the biggest bugs I have ever seen, so security is not really on their side, especially if you factored in iOS bugs + Mac OS bugs. I never hear these big stories about Windows updates that give users Root privileges by leaving a password field blank, or a character sent in a message that can crash your device. As far as limitations... I pray you are joking. I thought it was common knowledge that everyone knew that Mac OS/iOS is extremely limited compared to its competitors.
I find Edge great in tablet mode on windows and chrome great for everything else besides that mode on my hybrid device. Otherwise, chrome is the go to browser and King of all browsers on Windows 10. Scrolling is smooth enough....not to be nitpicky about that at least on my devices. Would never use Edge on a iPad...safari or chrome only.
Congratulations. IE is not Edge. Edge is Edge, and it’s far better than Chrome. It’s miles faster, it’s considerably safer, and it drains batteries less.