A lot of my clients (I am an Apple Tech) use Chrome on their macs without really knowing why.
Until a few years ago, you had to have at least another browser to access sites that didn’t play fair with safari.
Nowadays, WebKit optimization is a thing, and you can just have one browser.
I personally removed chrome (that was my second backup after Firefox) because Google already knows enough of my dirty little secrets.
EDIT: Apparently I wasn’t clear. I am not saying that NOBODY has reason to install Chrome. A lot of MY CLIENTS don’t. There ARE circumstances that require running it, I am not disputing that. But a lot of people install it with no other reason than habit, because they use(d) it on windows machines.
As much as it feels stupid to be against the "run whatever you want on the computer you bought" crowd, I have to say it will be a net negative for consumers if the iPhone is forced to open up to other browser rendering engines, because currently iOS is the only reason Google isn't completely running the internet.
If Chrome starts using its own rendering engine on iOS, it will dominate and there will be nothing preventing Google from coming up with whatever anti-consumer "web standards" they want, implementing them in all their websites, and then consumers will think other browsers like Safari and Firefox are "broken" for not cowtowing to Google's ideas. That's already the case on desktop, and the iPhone is the last bastion of non-Chrome internet domination.
Until a few years ago, you had to have at least another browser to access sites that didn’t play fair with safari.
Nowadays, WebKit optimization is a thing, and you can just have one browser.
I personally removed chrome (that was my second backup after Firefox) because Google already knows enough of my dirty little secrets.
EDIT: Apparently I wasn’t clear. I am not saying that NOBODY has reason to install Chrome. A lot of MY CLIENTS don’t. There ARE circumstances that require running it, I am not disputing that. But a lot of people install it with no other reason than habit, because they use(d) it on windows machines.
If Chrome starts using its own rendering engine on iOS, it will dominate and there will be nothing preventing Google from coming up with whatever anti-consumer "web standards" they want, implementing them in all their websites, and then consumers will think other browsers like Safari and Firefox are "broken" for not cowtowing to Google's ideas. That's already the case on desktop, and the iPhone is the last bastion of non-Chrome internet domination.