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Chrome > Safari
Google's browser is better than Apple's! Fight me. 🥊
Lewis Wallace
January 07, 2025
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You’ve likely heard all the negatives: Chrome is a resource hog. Chrome runs slow on Macs. Chrome will burn through your laptop’s battery. Chrome is spyware, allowing Google to gobble up all your personal information as fast as it can.
True enough. Still, Google’s browser dominates — and it’s not just PC users who prefer Chrome.
I use it every day because certain publishing tools required for my job just don’t work in Safari (or don’t work as well as in Chrome).
In today’s lead story, Cult of Mac writer Rajesh Pandey spells out why he also chooses Chrome over Safari.
When Steve Jobs introduced Safari in 2003, he talked up two things: speed and innovation. Apple’s browser wins on some fronts today — privacy and efficiency, most importantly — but for Rajesh and many others, Chrome remains the Mac browser of choice, more than two decades after Safari’s launch.
Which browser do you use? Let us know in today’s poll.
Also in today’s newsletter:
Interesting new products continue to pour out of CES, including innovative chargers, portable touchscreen displays and a MagSafe SSD that magnetically attaches to the back of your iPhone to provide a massive storage boost.
This new 6K monitor from LG boasts compelling specs, including Thunderbolt 5 connectivity. Wonder how much it will cost …
It might be too cold where you live to even think about summer right now, but this solar beach umbrella and power-packed cooler look like an excellent way to stay juiced when you next hit the sand.
After taking heat for Apple Intelligence’s bogus summaries of text messages, Cupertino pledges to label them more clearly as … potentially bogus AI summaries. 🤣
Apple co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak reunited onstage on this day in 1997. The happyfest didn’t last long, but it signaled that Apple was starting to get its groove back.
— Lewis Wallace, managing editor
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Happy 22nd Anniversary to the greatest duo of Laptops ever released: The 12 & 17-inch G4 Powerbooks! đź’»
— Basic Apple Guy (@BasicAppleGuy)
3:10 PM • Jan 7, 2025
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— Apple TV (@AppleTV)
7:19 PM • Jan 7, 2025
I’ve seen zero to suggest this. Yes, there are some Apple accessories and HomeKit integrations - but to say Apple is dominating CES is outright blasphemous. The long running joke is based on Apple announcing something of its own during CES. They haven’t done that this year.
— Mark Gurman (@markgurman)
2:15 AM • Jan 7, 2025
Wallpaper of the day
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— Aesthetics 𝕏 (@aestheticsguyy)
1:36 PM • Jan 6, 2025
One more thing ...
It's a totally new application. It's called Safari, and it is a turbo browser for Mac OS…. Why did we do a browser? There's two reasons. Number one, speed…. It is the fastest browser on the map, you're going to like this a lot. But the second reason was because we wanted to innovate.
Today’s poll
Which web browser do you use? |
Results from yesterday’s poll: Do you remember Aqua? Was it exciting or no?
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