80%? I think it's over 99%. Very few people would install a custom browser on mobile, most go with the default.

I highly doubt that, since it would imply 99% of users are using Samsung Internet on Samsung devices rather than Chrome, which doesn't seem to be true. If iOS users are largely using Safari, it's because Safari is actually a good enough browser that it isn't worth switching.

Eh... I would argue only power-users would switch to chrome on Samsung too.

No way in hell the free Samsung phone deals that carriers have all the time are given to more tech savy people than non-tech savy people.

As someone who has never purchased a new-in-box phone, do Samsung devices ship with Chrome preinstalled by virtue of *handwave* "because Android"?

Defaults do matter, I agree, and it's also ok to complain about any given default option if one thinks it's a bad option.

That doesn't make it ok to lie and mislead people in the process of making that complaint, though. It's very very easy to change the default search engine setting in iOS. It's about as easy as Apple could possibly make it. To allege otherwise, or to state that "jail-breaking" is somehow required, is simply a lie.

Just make the argument without lying.

I’m not an expert here, but apparently for Google the default is worth at least $1b a month.

On the other hand, I did change the default iOS browser easily. However, it would have been annoying to have a list of hundreds of options to choose from rather than the major ones.