Comment by dizhn
9 months ago
Didn't they allow alternative engines recently?
They even have emulators now. Undoubtedly a change forced on them by the EU.
9 months ago
Didn't they allow alternative engines recently?
They even have emulators now. Undoubtedly a change forced on them by the EU.
Apparently you are right, they do since around February on iOS 17.4. In the EU only.
https://developer.apple.com/support/alternative-browser-engi...
Neat, question is if any of the browsers actually have had time to make use of it though?
It's not as simple as that, you're basically asking browsers to target a completely different platform, just for the EU users, where iPhones are nowhere near as popular to begin with.
Google might at some point maintain two completely different Chromes targeting iOS, but I doubt anyone else will (including Firefox). Even with Chrome, I wouldn't bet on it. It's a very difficult technical problem with no clear, easily-marketable benefit to most people.
Apple knew what they were doing, they've "complied", but in a way where nobody would bother.
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