Would Safari on Android (and with the same features) eat less battery though?
I agree in general regarding it being better if multiple engines are available. On the other hand, when I build something, and I'm developing it on Firefox, it usually just works on chromium-based Browsers. Safari tends to be the odd one out that has some weird behavior, although it's much less common and much less bad than it was in the IE days.
Also: not having to buy a Mac every few years just so I can test things in Safari sounds sweet, too.
Web developers wouldn't drop support for Safari as long as a significant amount of users use it (and especially not if those users are premium users, which they tend to be: higher disposable income, better trained to pay for things etc), so I don't think that's an actual risk. At least for anything I'm involved with: we'll drop Firefox before we drop Safari, and we pretty much keep Firefox only because some developers and some PMs are using it.
> Would Safari on Android (and with the same features) eat less battery though?
Yes, probably. WebKit browsers on other platforms like GNOME Web/Epiphany on Linux is easier on battery than Chrome or Firefox. WebKit is generally speaking more efficient than Blink and Gecko.
I agree in general regarding it being better if multiple engines are available. On the other hand, when I build something, and I'm developing it on Firefox, it usually just works on chromium-based Browsers. Safari tends to be the odd one out that has some weird behavior, although it's much less common and much less bad than it was in the IE days.
Also: not having to buy a Mac every few years just so I can test things in Safari sounds sweet, too.
Web developers wouldn't drop support for Safari as long as a significant amount of users use it (and especially not if those users are premium users, which they tend to be: higher disposable income, better trained to pay for things etc), so I don't think that's an actual risk. At least for anything I'm involved with: we'll drop Firefox before we drop Safari, and we pretty much keep Firefox only because some developers and some PMs are using it.