Microsoft Edge Browser for iPhone Launches on App Store

convergent said:
Why did all of you even look in this thread? Clearly the walled garden Apple ecosystem works for you so anything not branded Apple is not designed for you.

For others, I think competition is great and other companies are slowly eroding the value of Apple's walled garden. I have clawed my way out of that and don't want to be in a situation where I'm solely dependent on one company for everything I do. Now that Microsoft has shed their mobile hardware platform, they are free to build a great ecosystem that is more open and lets the user chose what platform they want for phone.

The reality however is that Apple will likely continue to make it awkward for anything but what they want to lock you into. I'm starting to use Edge more in some situations. Its more efficient on Windows tablet mode and good with battery usage. And the continuity from phone to computer and back is pretty nice. I'm still not using Edge for my daily driver... was already using Firefox and their new Firefox Quantum fixed the one area that it was weak in... speed.
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So they're not allowed to have opinions, but you are? That's how your post comes across. Edge is poor on Windows compared to the alternatives, and they did a poor job supporting the iOS ecosystem with this release. I think the opinions you quoted are perfectly valid.
 
First, how about Files support for OneDrive that Microsoft promised back in July! No thanks to Edge primarily its against most corporate policies to have a personal account together with a corporate edition license. I keep it all separate and no reason to use Edge.
 
Downloaded it, opened it, hit with a full screen ad on the first site I went to.

Without ad block, I have no reason to even want to use a browser like this.
 
Its nice that Microsoft puts the effort into it, but I wouldn't want it from them...have to assume they'll be harvesting your browsing data (I always assume they're like Google, but without the small bit of moral character Google appears to have - sometimes, note article this morning about Google and Safari tracking).

For those wanting continuity across platforms Firefox Sync's across all phone and all PC platforms without the Google power structure running it.
 
I’ve been using the beta for a while. I like it, but mainly because I use it to access my work Sharepoint and it seems to render better on Edge. Also we used Spotfire, and this is better also
 
So, another company publishes a web browser for iPhone. You can install and you it if you want. Or simply ignore it, and forget all about it.

Simple choices one would think. But then again, after reading all of the unnecessary hate on MR forums, those two simple choices seem to be to little for some.
 
What could possibly be the point of Microsoft building an inferior wrapper to Apple's native browser and branding it as a browser already inferior on it's own native platform?!
 
Guess I will download and test it once and there it goes again...I find it to create some extrem power consumption on our corporate PCs. Saying that and on the background it to be the new default windows browser I somehow was quite surprised. Well, maybe I was not surprised at all...
 
It’s the end of 2017 and iOS users still can’t choose a default browser or navigation app. Not to mention saving a song sent from an email and adding it to iTunes. These are all basic features that are blocked to keep you stuck in the Apple ecosystem. Pathetic.
 
Scrolling in Edge on PC desktop is just awful. It's got a janky, stuttering feel that intermittenly sticks as though it's trying to snap to paragraphs.
 
convergent said:
Why did all of you even look in this thread? Clearly the walled garden Apple ecosystem works for you so anything not branded Apple is not designed for you.

For others, I think competition is great and other companies are slowly eroding the value of Apple's walled garden. I have clawed my way out of that and don't want to be in a situation where I'm solely dependent on one company for everything I do. Now that Microsoft has shed their mobile hardware platform, they are free to build a great ecosystem that is more open and lets the user chose what platform they want for phone.

The reality however is that Apple will likely continue to make it awkward for anything but what they want to lock you into. I'm starting to use Edge more in some situations. Its more efficient on Windows tablet mode and good with battery usage. And the continuity from phone to computer and back is pretty nice. I'm still not using Edge for my daily driver... was already using Firefox and their new Firefox Quantum fixed the one area that it was weak in... speed.
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My original post had no criticism towards Microsoft for releasing an iPhone browser. In fact, I've been beta testing this app for the past few weeks. I simply pointed out that they should have optimized the app to fit the screen size of the iPhone X as it's been out for more than a month now. Even Microsoft's other apps (Office, OneDrive, etc) are optimized for the screen size so it seems strange that a brand new app wouldn't be.
 
maflynn said:
Its pretty much a useless browser in windows, so I see no reason to use it on my phone
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I disagree... when I'm on battery, it does better at battery consumption than Chrome. Same thing as Safari on Mac vs Chrome.

I like Chrome and all, but only if I'm plugged into power and I'm not trying to run other programs because of its memory hogging tendencies.
 
trusso said:
Blah, blah, blah. Microsoft sucks. Blah, blah, blah.

I swear, God herself could descend from the heavens to run Microsoft, and some of you would still gripe.

Give it a rest, Sisyphus.
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if a god existed it wouldn’t release an unoptomized app for the iPhone X

Get off your high horse, they didn’t put it the effort to optimize the app, it deserves criticism.
 
Nick A said:
No built in ad-blocking? No thank you.
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Statusnone88 said:
Not built for iPhone X almost a month after the phone was released.

No built in ad blocking.

Pass, pass, and pass.
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Xenomorph said:
Downloaded it, opened it, hit with a full screen ad on the first site I went to.

Without ad block, I have no reason to even want to use a browser like this.
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Are 3rd party browsers in iOS allowed to have ad-blocking?
FelixDerKater said:
Maybe if it used its own rendering engine...
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Are 3rd party browsers in iOS allowed to use their own rendering engines?
 
iMerik said:
I won't be using it, but I like how much effort Microsoft is putting into supporting Apple devices with Microsoft apps for those that might still depend on Microsoft for work or home. I know plenty of people that use Office 365 and absolutely love what MS has done with Outlook, Word, and the other office apps for iOS and Mac OS. It makes sense if you are using Edge to be able to sync that experience to your iOS devices.

Again, I have no need to use it, but this doesn't deserve any hate.
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The idea doesn't deserve hate... but the execution might
 
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