I’m sorry, Mom… I really did ask just about everyone I know how on Earth I was going to explain what the fuck happened to Apple’s web browser. I don’t have any explanation and I find little validity in Apple’s, but Safari is absolutely fucked, and that’s essentially all that is useful to say. I have personally grown to accept it, but I have been groomed by a penchant for experimental mobile browsers like Cake, and this sentence simply does not stand up for my family members who have depended on Safari to… just work well. For them, I have a (personally unbelievable) alternative, after having tried literally every single browser available on iOS. I wish I could say Edge was the all-around winner, but - bizzarely - it’s Brave, hands down. For better or worse, turn off all the stuff that makes Brave actually unique in any way (all iOS browsers are actually built on the exact same platform that doesn’t have anything to do with their desktop counterparts,) and it is my pick for the best balance of speed and competency.
Yes, you can technically Facetime with non-Apple devices thanks to iOS 15's changes. In fact, you'll be able to "Facetime" any device with a web browser! However, in doing so you will be forgoing every single one of Facetime's advantages: call quality, "privacy," ecosystem integration, etc. Without these, it would be silly to use Facetime over literally any other video calling service. What an immense waste of time, eh?
https://twitter.com/NeoYokel/status/1430679850399014912
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJCRzOclrxQ;